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if you use the lookup feature at Bingley's Greek dictionary link, you can eventually fine this:
I. many-coloured, spotted, mottled, pied, dappled, of leopards, fawns, Hom., etc.
II. of robes, wrought in various colours, broidered, Il., etc.; en poikilois kallesin, of a rich carpet, Aesch.; so, ta poikila id=Aesch.
2. of metal work, teuchea p. chalkôi in-wrought with brass, Il., etc.: but, p. desmos intricate, Od.
3. hê stoa hê poikilê, the Poecile or great hall at Athens adorned with paintings of the battle of Marathon by Polygnotus, Aeschin., etc.
III. metaph. changeful, various, diversified, manifold, Aesch., Plat.;-- p. mênes the changing months, Pind.
2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, id=Pind.; so, poikilon kitharizôn id=Pind.
3. intricate, complex, Hdt., Soph., etc.: --adv., poikilôs audômenos speaking in double sense, Soph.
b. of abstruse knowledge, intricate, subtle, poikilon ti eidenai Eur.; ouden p. nothing abstruse or difficult, Plat.:--so, of persons, subtle, wily, Aesch.; p. gar hanêr Ar.
4. changeable, changeful, unstable, Arist.:-- poikilôs echein to be different, Xen.
the moral of our fable: even the Greeks transferred meanings..
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