A.= περόνη, brooch, clasp for fastening dresses, esp. on the shoulders; used for piercing the eyes, E.Ph.62, Hec.1170: mostly pl., of the fastenings for women's dresses, Il.18.401, h.Ven.163, E.El.318, etc.; worn as emblem of rank by συγγενεῖς τῶν βασιλέων, LXX 1 Ma.10.89; by a Roman officer,=fibula, IGRom.1.1299 (Egypt); of a hair-clasp, Luc.Dom. 7.
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πόρπ-η , ἡ, （πείρω）
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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