ἔμπλαστρος
From LSJ
εἰς τετρημένον πίθον ἀντλεῖν → run water into a punctured pitcher, to the perforated jar bale water, labour in vain, labor in vain
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A salve or plaster, Dsc.1.32; said to be later form of ἔμπλαστος, Gal.13.372; also ἔμπλαστρον, τό, Hierocl.Facet.221, PSI3.297 (V A. D.).
Spanish (DGE)
-ου, ἡ
medic. emplasto κίκινον ἔλαιον ... ἐμπλάστροις μιγέν Dsc.1.32.2, cf. Archig. en Gal.13.256, Thessal.211.4, Gal.12.236, Ael.Prom.46.19, PSI 297.1 (V d.C.), Gp.12.12.2, 17.22, Αἰγυπτία ἔ. Damocr. en Gal.13.821
•fig. bálsamo εὑρὼν ἰατρὸν ἔμπλαστρον ἐπιτιθέντα νεκροῖς ref. a Cristo, Hsch.H.Hom.12.8.5, cf. 15.7.6, τῆς ὑπομονῆς Leont.Const.Hom.5.163.
