πλάσμα

A. anything formed or moulded, image, figure, πλάσματα πηλοῦ Ar. Av. 686 ; κήρινον . . οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅ τι π. as it were a piece of wax-work, Pl. Tht. 197d, cf. 200c, Sph. 239e ; of figures made by bakers, Men. 113 : pl., cakes of incense, POxy. 2144.29 (iii A.D.).

b. the body, as fashioned by the Creator, PMag.Par. 1.212.

II. counterfeit, forgery, π. ὅλον ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη D. 45.29.

b. figment, fiction, πλάσματα τῶν προτέρων Xenoph. 1.22, cf. Arist. Cael. 289a6, Str. 1.2.36, J. BJ 1.1.2, Plu. Thes. 28, etc. ; of a story which is fictitious but possible, opp. ἱστορία 11 and μῦθος 11.3, S.E. M. 1.263, Aus. Prof. 21.26, cf. Ph. 1.528.

c. pretence, Phld. Vit. p.38 J., Plu. Mar. 43.

2. delusion, Phld. Lib. p.56O.

III. formed style in writing or speaking, π. καὶ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν δημηγόρου Id. Rh. 1.199 S.; opp. τρόπος, σχῆμα, ib.164S.; π. ἱστορικόν, opp. ὑπαγωγικόν, D.H. Pomp. 4 ; ἡνίκ’ ἂν ᾖ ποιητικὸν τοῦ λόγου τὸ π. Longin. 15.8.

2. in music, affected execution, with trills, falsetto, etc., μετὰ πλάσματος αὐλεῖν, opp. ἀπλάστως, Thphr. HP 4.11.5 ; of studied intonation in orators or actors, π. φωνῆς ἀθόρυβον Plu. Per. 5, cf. 2.405d ; lectio plasmate effeminata, Quint. Inst. 1.8.2 ; ἀναγνώσεις μετὰ πλάσματος Sor. 1.49.