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μεσό-λευκος , ον,
A.middling white, χιτὼν πορφυροῦς μ. a tunic of purple shot with white, X.Cyr.8.3.13, cf. Luc.Alex.11; μ. χιτών alone, JHS41.195 (Delos, ii B. C.), D.C.36.52; opp. πορφύρεος, Ephipp. ap. Ath.12.537e; “χλαμὺς μ.” D.C.78.3.
II. Subst., a precious stone, Plin. HN37.174.
2. = λευκὰς ὀρεινή, ib.27.102.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.3.13
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.102
    • Lucian, Alexander, 11
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 36.52
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 78.3
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