κάλυμμα [ᾰ], ατος, τό,
(κᾰλύπτω) head-covering, hood, veil, κ. κυάνεον dark veil worn in mourning, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.93, “hymnus ad Cererem” 42 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Χρύσεον κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.38; ὁ Χρησμὸς οὐκέτ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων ἔσται δεδορκὼς νεογάμου νύμφης δίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1178 (but _metaphorically_, δείξω τάδ᾽ ἐκ καλυμμάτων] Refs 5th c.BC+] 'I will lift the veil', [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1078)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχους᾽ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 372, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 532, “fragment” 320.5, 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus 1.18; κάρα καλύμμασι κρυψάμενον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 245 (Lyric poetry); Χαλᾶτε πᾶν κάλυμμ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν [prev. author] “El.” 1468; Μωυσῆς ἐτίθει κ. ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον NT.2Cor.3.13. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 fishing-net shaped like a sack, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.82 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; βουλευτοῖσιν ἐν καλύμμασιν, of the garment thrown by Clytaemnestra over her husband, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 494. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 skull (as the brain's covering), [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 906. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__4 grave, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.227 (3rd c.BC(?): Diotimus Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 in animals, the covering of the gills of fishes, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505a2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; operculum of testaceans, [[[prev. work] 547b5 ] Refs]; eyelid, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.66. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]