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many-coloured, spotted, pied, dappled, παρδαλέη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.30; ὄφις 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 300 codices (αἰόλον Scholia)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δράκων [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴυγξ[[ [prev. work] 4.214; νεβρίδες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 249; ὄρνιθες 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.4.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of cattle, [[ “PCair.Preis.” 37.9 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; -ώτερον ταὧ [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 110.14, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.397c ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; opposed to ὁμόχρους, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 543a25; κιθῶνες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.61 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λίθος Αἰθιοπικὸς π., of the red granite of Syene, [[ [prev. author] 2.127, compare “IG” 42(1).106i96, 113(Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σφαῖρα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110b; in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], tattooed.
__II wrought in various colours, of woven or embroidered stuffs, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus as epithet of πέπλος, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.735, +others; ἱμάς 14.215; φᾶρος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 586 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ποικίλοις.. κάλλεσιν βαίνειν, of a rich carpet, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 923; ποικίλα, τά, [prev. work] 926, 936, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.78 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π., τό, a broidered robe, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 38; ἐπίβλημα π. “IG” 12.387.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Cyprian, Carthaginian, and Sicilian stuffs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 611, 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 63.23, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 76.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -λως, ὑφασμένον [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 99 (uncertain); στρωμναὶ π. διηνθισμέναι LXX.Est.1.6. ] LXX+4th c.BC+]
__II.2 of metal work, τεύχεα π. χαλκῷ cunningly wrought in bronze, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” [423]; θώρηξ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.134; τεύχεα, ἔντεα, σάκος, δίφρος, κλισμός, etc., 4.432, 10.75, 149, 501, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.132, etc.; but δεσμὸς π. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]intricate, [[ 8.448. ] Refs]
__II.3 ἡ στοὰ ἡ π. the [[ “Painted” Hall at Athens, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.186; ἡ π. στοά 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.17, 59.94, compare 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.15.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also Ποικίλη alone, [[ [prev. author] 5.11.6, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 10.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; or ἡ Π., [[ [prev. author] “Pisc.” 13, 16, etc.] Refs]; also π. στοά, at Olympia, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.21.17 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; λέσχη π., at Sparta, [[ [prev. author] 3.15.8; θρᾶνος π. “PCair.Zen.” 445.5 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.4 of drugs, complicated, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III metaphorically, changeful, diversified, manifold, εὐμορφία [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 495; π. κακῶν ταμιεῖον 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 149; -ώτερος αὐτοῦ Πρωτέως 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 5; ποικίλα ἀντὶ ἁπλοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146d; -ώτερα ποιεῖν τὰ νοσήματα [prev. author] “R.” 426a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παντοδαπὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ π. καὶ παντοίως ἐχούσας[[ [prev. work] 559d; οὕτω δὲ π. τί ἐστι τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ παντοδαπόν [prev. author] “Prt.” 334b; πηδήσεις ὡς ἔνι -ωτάτας ποιεῖσθαι 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 43.3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. μῆνες the changing months, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).18 (nisi to be read ποικίλα [χθών]); π. εὐεργεσία “IG” 5(2).268.22 (Mantinea, 1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -λως in various ways, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 33, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.91: _comparative_ -ωτέρως, θρεπτέον] Refs 5th c.BC+] Herod.middle in [[ “Rh.Mus.” 58.85;] Refs] but -ώτερον [[2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “Vit.Hp.” 4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.2 of Art, π. ὕμνος a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.87; ποικίλον κιθαρίζων [prev. author] “N.” 4.14; δεδαιδαλμένοι ψεύδεσι ποικίλοις μῦθοι [prev. author] “O.” 1.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of style, λέξις ποιητικωτέρα καὶ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.47 (_comparative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σχηματισμοί [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isaeo” 3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III.3 intricate, complex, εἱλιγμοὶ -ώτατοι, of a labyrinth, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.148 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of an oracle, [[ [prev. author] 7.111 (_comparative_)] Refs]; ὁ θεὸς ἔφυ τι π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 711 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. νόμος, opposed to νοῆσαι ῥᾴδιος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 182b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. μηχάνημα, λόγοι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 762, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 438 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἁπλούστερος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1416b25; οὐδὲν π. οὐδὲ σοφόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.37. ] Refs 4th c.BC+] adverb -λως, αὐδώμενος speaking in double sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 130; π. ᾐνιγμένος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3.b of abstruse knowledge, intricate, subtle, εἰδέναι τι π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 300 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν π. nothing abstruse or difficult, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 75e, “Grg.” 491d, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3.c of persons and things, subtle, artful, wily, of Prometheus, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 511, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 310 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of Odysseus, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 526; π. γὰρ ἁνήρ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 758; φύσει π. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.18.4; ἀλώπηξ κερδαλέα καὶ π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 365c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. λαλήματα, of the Sirens, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 937; π. τόξον 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 9.43; βουλεύματα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb subtly, artfully, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 888 (Lyric poetry); σοφῶς.. καὶ π. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 110.20; π. χρώμενοι τοῖς πράγμασιν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.30.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.4 changeable, unstable, ὁ εὐδαίμων οὐ π. καὶ εὐμετάβολος [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1101a8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. ἐλπίδες doubtful hopes, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 14.1.5; π. περιστάσεις “OGI” 194.5 (Egypt, 1st c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] adverb -λως, ἔχειν to be different, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.21; δέος π. περιαμύττον τὸν νοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 365c: _comparative_ -ωτέρως uncertain in 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 5G. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (Cf. Sanskrit pimśáti 'dress (meat)', 'adorn', péśas 'shape', 'colour', 'embroidery', Lithuanian pi[etilde]šti 'draw', 'write', Slavonic p[icaron]sati 'write'.)
