ἐπικάλυμμα
παῖδας ἐκτεκνούμενος λάθρᾳ θνῄσκοντας ἀμελεῖ → having gotten children in secret, he abandons them to die
English (LSJ)
[κᾰ], ατος, τό,
A cover, veil, πλοῦτος πολλῶν ἐ. ἐστιν κακῶν Men.90. II. in animals, covering of any orifice, of the gills of fish, Arist.HA505a1, PA696b3; of the opercula of crabs and other crustacea, Id.HA527b26, 541b26, cf. 530a21.
German (Pape)
[Seite 945] τό, das Darübergedeckte, die Decke, Deckmantel, Menand. Stob. fl. 91, 19. Bei Arist. H. A. 5, 7 heißt der Krebsschwanz so.
English (Thayer)
ἐπικαλυμτος, τό (ἐπικαλύπτω), a covering, veil; properly, in the Sept.: Complutensian (cf. 39:21 Tdf.); metaphorically, equivalent to a pretext, cloak: τῆς κακίας, πλοῦτος δέ πολλῶν ἐπικαλυμμ' ἐστι κακῶν, Menander quoted in Stobaeus, flor. 91,19 (iii. 191, Gaisf. edition); quaerentes libidinibus suis patrocinium et velamentum, Seneca, vita beata 12).
