λεπ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
(λέπω) epithelial debris, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; layer of the skull, [[ “PMed.” in “Arch.Papyrus” 4.270] Refs]; ᾠοῦ λ. egg-shell, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 198 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; cup of a filbert, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 6.22 (from Zonas), 102 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; coat of an onion, [[Scholia 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 26. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 collectively, scales of fish, λεπίδος σιδηρέης ὄψιν ἰχθυοειδέος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.61; ὃ ἐν ὄρνιθι πτερόν, τοῦτο ἐν ἰχθύϊ ἐστὶ λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 486b21; opposed to φολίς, [prev. work] 490b23, 517b5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of serpents, variant in [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 154, compare 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 82. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of other things, λ. χαλκοῦ flakes that fly from copper in hammering, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.78, 79: _absolutely_, λεπίς 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.63. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 plate of metal, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 69.50, 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 12.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.91, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phocion” 18; collectively, λ. σιδηρᾶ “BGU” 544.8 (2nd c.AD) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of gold and silver, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.27.10; λ. ἀργυρᾶ “PMag.Par.” 1.258. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]