The corpus record

ζωγρᾰφ-ία

zographia · ἡ

art of painting

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Where it lives

De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

art of painting

art of painting, Democr. 28a, Pl. Phdr. 275d, X. Mem. 1.4.3: metaph., φυσικὴ ζ. Secund. Sent. 14.

II painting

painting, τῶν παρειῶν v.l. in Philostr. Ep. 22 (cod. Barocc. 50); τοῦ στύλου IGRom. 1.1272 (Egypt, ii A.D.).

metaph., ἐπὶ σκιᾷ (sc. οὐσία) ζωγραφία καὶ τὸ φαίνεσθαι Plot. 6.3.8.

In the wild

Ζωγραφία · Zōgraphia Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 112)
ζωγραφίας · zōgraphias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 290)
ζωγραφίης · zōgraphiēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 8079)
ζωγραφίᾳ · zōgraphiai Plato, Phaedrus 275 (DIORISIS sentence 925)
ζωγραφίαν · zōgraphian Plato, Republic 2.373 (DIORISIS sentence 1155)
ζωγραφίαν · zōgraphian Plato, Sophist 236

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Where it came from

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