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ῥυ^πα^ρός , ά, όν,
A.filthy, dirty, “κόλυθρον” Telecl.3; “δάπιδες” Pherecr. 185; ῥ. εἴριον greasy, Hp.Fract.21; “γαστέρας” Id.Prorrh.2.23 (s.v.l.); unpurged, “σῶμα” Alex.Trall.Febr.7.
2. metaph., sordid, mean, ἤδη χορηγὸν πώποτε -ώτερον τοῦδ᾽ εἶδες; Eup.306; uncultured, “ῥ. τρόποι” Philetaer.18; βίος δουλοπρεπὴς καὶ ῥ. Arist.VV1251b13; ῥ. πολῖται, ὄχλος, D.H.7.8,9.44; of style, Longin.43.5. Adv. “-ρῶς” Men. 142, Epicur.Sent.Vat.43, Arr.Epict.2.9.4, AP10.48 (Pall.): Sup. “-ώτατα” D.C.59.4.
3. of coins, made of base metal, gold or silver alloy, “ἀργυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμάς” BGU214.12 (ii A.D.), cf. Ostr.Bodl. ii 32 (ii A.D.), al.
4. κροτὼν ῥ., prob. = ἀδειγμάτιστος, PCair.Zen. 670.6 (iii B.C.); σῖτος ῥ. unwinnowed, PFay.16.10 (i B.C.); κριθὴ ῥ. POxy.1542.7 (iv A.D.).
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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    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 21
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.44
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 59.4
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