ἔμπλαστρος
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
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.
