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πορφύρ-α [υ^], Ion. πορφύρ-ρη , ἡ,
A.purple-fish, Murex trunculus and Purpura haemastoma, S.Fr.504, Archipp.23, Arist.HA528a10, al., Speus. ap. Ath.3.86c; “τρέφουσα . . πορφύρας ἰσάργυρον κηκῖδα” A.Ag. 959.
II. purple dye obtained from it, Sapph.44, Hdt.3.22, Isoc. 12.39, Pl.Lg.847c; “ἡ π. ἡ θαλαττία” Phylarch.45 J., etc.; “π. βαθυτάτη” Ael.NA4.36; used as an application, “βρέξαντες ἐν [τῷ νάρδῳ] τὴν π. ἐπιτιθέναι” Orib.Eup.3.2.
III. = πορφυρίς 1, Plu.Aem.23, etc.: in pl., cloths of purple, “πορφύρας πατῶν” A.Ag.957: collectively in sg., “κωμῳδοῖς . . πορφύραν εἰσφέρων, ὥσπερ οἱ Μεγαρεῖς” Arist.EN1123a23.
IV. purple stripe or other adornment of a garment, “τῆς σκιᾶς τὴν π. πρῶτον ἐνυφαίνουσ᾽, εἶτα μετὰ τὴν π. τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν οὔτε λευκὸν οὔτε π. ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ αὐγὴ τῆς κρόκης κεκραμένη” Men.561; “ποτικεφάλαια . . μὴ ἔχοντα μήτε σκιὰν μήτε πορφύραν” IG5(1).1390.24 (Andania, i B.C.), cf. BGU1141.41 (i B.C.), Luc.Par.58, Gal.18(2).791; π. πλατεῖα, = Lat. latus clavus, Plb.10.26.1, Demetr.Eloc.108 (pl.); π. alone, IGRom.3.1422 (Prusias).
V. metaph., “σελήνη οὐρανοῦ π.” Secund.Sent.6. (Perh. formed from “πορφύρεος” 11, cf. μαρμαίρω, μαρμάρεος, μάρμαρος.）
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 957
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 959
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.22
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 39
    • Plato, Laws, 847c
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 504
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.26.1
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 23
    • Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, 58
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 4.36
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