κρυπ-τός, ή, όν,
hidden, secret, [[ κληῗδι κρυπτῇ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.168, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Th.” 422; ἐπεποίητό οἱ κ. διῶρυξ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.146 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. τάφρος a trench covered and concealed by planks and earth, [[ [prev\. author] 4.201: frequently in Trag., κ. λόγος Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Choephori” 773; ἔπη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry); κρυπτᾷ ἐν ἥβᾳ, of young Orestes who was concealed in Phocis, [[ [prev\. author] “El.” 159 (Lyric poetry); κ. πένθος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 139 (Lyric poetry), etc.; κρυπτῇ ψήφῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1424b1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς πολιτείας τὸ κ. the secret character of the [Spartan] institutions, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.68; ἡ κρυπτή (i.e. ἀρχή)] Refs 5th c.BC+] secret service, used by the Athenians in the subjectstates, [[“AB” 273; also, ={κρυπτεία}1, 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus “Pol.” 10 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; of persons, in disguise, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Th.” 600, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “El.” 525 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in Medicine texts, deep-seated, [[ καρκίνος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 6.38, “Mul.” 2.133, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.116; κ. πάθος “BGU” 316.28 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]