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κα^λάσι_ρις [λα^], ιος, ἡ,
A.a long Egyptian garment, with tassels or fringe at bottom, Hdt.2.81, Cratin.30; also, a Persian garment of like kind, Democr.Eph.1; used in the Mysteries of Andania, IG5(1).1390.17 (in form καλάσηρις ):—title of a Comedy of Alexis. Cf. τρυφοκαλάσι_ρις.
II. as pr. n., Καλασίριες, οἱ, a branch of the military caste in Egypt, Hdt.2.164, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.164
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