χρωματικός
πεσούσης νυκτός, πάσα γυνὴ Λαΐς εστί → at nightfall, every woman is a Laïs | all cats are gray at night | all cats are gray by night | all cats are gray in the dark | all cats are grey at night | all cats are grey by night | all cats are grey in the dark | all women look the same with the lights off | when lights are out all women look the same
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A of, relating to colour:—but only found, II metaph., in Rhet., offering a colourable pretext (χρῶμα IV.4), τὸ χ., as name of a form of rebuttal, Aps.p.273H. (v.l. χρωμάτιον). 2 in Music, chromatic (cf. χρῶμα IV. 3), μελῳδία D.H.Comp.19; μέλος, opp. διάτονον, ἐναρμόνιον, Alciphr.1.18, cf. Aristox(?).Oxy.667.1; τὸ -κὸν [γένος] the chromatic genus, Plu.2.744c, cf. Phld.Mus.p.63K., Ph.1.321.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1383] 1) dem chromatischen Tongeschlecht entsprechend, nach den Gesetzen desselben componirt, dah. ἡ χρωματικὴ μουσική, = χρῶμα a. E. – 2) = χρωμάτινος, gefärbt.
