egg-shell
From LSJ
φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποίησις μᾶλλον τὰ καθόλου, ἡ δ' ἱστορία τὰ καθ' ἕκαστον λέγει → poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Ar. λεπίς, ἡ, V. ὄστρακος τό (Aesch., Fragment).
a white egg-shell: V. τεῦχος νεοσσῶν λευκόν (Euripides, Helen 258).
