The corpus record

ζωγρᾰφ-έω

zographeo

paint from life, paint

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Philebus 2 · 1.13/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

paint from life, paint

paint from life, paint, τινα Pl. R. 598b, etc.:—Pass., Id. Cra. 434b: metaph., ἡδοναὶ . . ἐζωγραφημέναι Id. Phlb. 40b; ὀνείρους ζ. Porph. Chr. 23.

II adorn with paint

adorn with paint, τὰς ληκύθους Ar. Ec. 996; τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀσβόλῳ Alex. 98.16, cf. Nicostr. ap. Stob. 4.23.62.

III adorn

generally, adorn, κῆπον σὺν τοῖς φυτοῖς Arch.Pap. 2.449.

In the wild

ἐζωγραφημένους · ezōgraphēmenous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5058)
ζωγραφούμενα · zōgraphoumena Plato, Cratylus 434 (DIORISIS sentence 1271)
ζωγραφούμενόν · zōgraphoumenon Plato, Epistles 342
ἐζωγραφημέναι · ezōgraphēmenai Plato, Philebus 40
ἐζωγραφημένα · ezōgraphēmena Plato, Philebus 40
ζωγραφήσει · zōgraphēsei Plato, Republic 10.598 (DIORISIS sentence 5943)

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