μορφ-ή, ἡ,
form, shape, twice in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (not in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus), σοὶ δ᾽ ἔπι μὲν μορφὴ ἐπέων] Refs 8th c.BC+] thou hast comeliness of words, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.367 (compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis (at [prev. work]))] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so probably ἄλλος μὲν.. εἶδος ἀκιδνότερος πέλει ἀνήρ, ἀλλὰ θεὸς μορφὴν ἔπεσι στέφει God adds a crown of shapeliness to his words, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.170: frequently later, μορφὰς δύο ὀνομάζειν 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.53; μορφὴν ἀλλάξαντα 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 137.1; μορφὰν βραχύς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).53 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μορφῆς μέτρα shape and size, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1063: periphrastic, μορφῆς φύσις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 496 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μορφῆς σχῆμα, τύπωμα, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 992, “Ph.” 162; τὴν αὐτὴν τοῦ σχήματος μορφήν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 640b34; καὶ Γαῖα, πολλῶν ὀνομάτων μ. μία 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 212 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀνειράτων ἀλίγκιοι μορφαῖσιν[[ [prev. work] 449; νυκτέρων φαντασμάτων ἔχουσι μορφάς [prev. author] “fragment” 312; προὔπεμψεν ἀντὶ φιλτάτης μ. σποδόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1159 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.12 (_plural_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially with reference to beauty of form, ὑπέρφατον μορφᾷ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.65 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἷς ποτιστάξῃ χάρις εὐκλέα μ.[[ [prev. work] 6.76, compare “IG” 42 (1).121.119 (Epid., 4th c.BC), LXX.Tob.1.13, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 1.6, etc.; σῶμα μορφῆς ἐμῆς “OGI” 383.41 (Commagene, 1st c.BC); μορφῆς εἰκόνας [prev. work]27; χαρακτῆρα μορφῆς ἐμῆς [prev. work]60. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]