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μιλτ-όω

miltoo

cover with ruddle

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μιλτ-όω · milt-oō — LSJ

cover with ruddle, cover oneself, be covered with ruddle, covered with ruddle

cover with ruddle, πλίνθους Supp.Epigr. 4.453.21 (Didyma, ii B. C.); σχοινίον Poll. 8.104; τοῖχον S.E. M. 10.126; glossed by πλύνω, Hsch.:—Med. or Pass., cover oneself or be covered with ruddle, Hdt. 4.194; μεμιλτωμένῃ τῇ χειρί S.E. l.c.; σχοινίον μεμιλτωμένον the rope covered with ruddle with which they drove loiterers out of the Agora to the Pnyx, Ar. Ach. 22, cf. Poll. l.c.

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