σπίλος [ῐ], ὁ,
__B spot, fleck, blemish, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 16, 1st c.BC: Dorio Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.297c; σ. αἵματος 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 13.11.3 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; on the moon, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.921f; on the face or body, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.33, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 15, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 5.67, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Declamationes” 26.19, “Geoponica” 12.26.2] Refs 1st c.AD+]: metaphorically, stain of impurity or vice, [[ Lysis Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 17.76, NT.Eph.5.27 ] NT+4th c.AD+]; of persons, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.24 (conjecture), NT.2Pet.2.13. (_Attic dialect_ use κηλίς _accusative_ to 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 21.) [σπῖλος] NT+1st c.BC+] Hdn.Gr.2.920; but ῐ in the equivalent σπιλάς (B) and in the compound ἄσπιλος.]