εἴδωλον, τό,
(εἶδος) phantom, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.451, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.796, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92.ή, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 959b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βροτῶν εἴδωλα καμόντων, of ghosts, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.476, etc.; ψυχῶν 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 64. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 any unsubstantial form, εἴδωλον σκιᾶς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 839, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 659.6, 4th c.BC: Chaeremon Tragicus 14.15; οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα.. ἢ κούφην σκιάν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 126 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴ. ἄλλως a mere form, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 947 ] Refs]; αἰῶνος εἴ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 131.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 image reflected in a mirror or in water, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 266b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Divinatione per Somnia” 464b9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 in the system of Epicurus, film given off by any object and conveying an impression to the eye, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.10U., “Nat.” 2.1, +others, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 15.16.1, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II image in the mind, idea, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; phantom of the mind, fancy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 66c; εἴ. καὶ ψεῦδος [prev. author] “Tht.” 150c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]