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πέπλος , ὁ, in late Poets also with heterocl. pl. πέπλα, AP9.616, Epigr.Gr.418 (Cyrene) :—
A.any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, to cover a chariot, funeral-urn, seat, Il.5.194, 24.796, Od.7.96 ; laid over the face of the dead, E.Tr.627, cf. Hec. 432, Ion 1421.
II. upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women, “π. ἑανός, ποικίλος” Il.5.734, cf. Batr.182, Od.18.292, X.Cyr.5.1.6.
2. at Athens, the embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea, IG12.80.11 ; “τὸν π. . . ἕλκουσ᾽, ὀνεύοντες . . εἰς ἄκρον ὥσπερ ἱστίον τὸν ἱστόν” Stratt.30 ; “ὁ π. μεστὸς τῶν τοιούτων ποικιλμάτων” Pl.Euthphr.6c, cf. E.Hec.468, Ar.Eq.566, Arist.Ath.49.3, 60.1.
b. metaph. of a mythological work by Aristotle, Porph. ap. Eust.285.25 : pl., Tz.ad Lyc.488.
3. less freq. of a man's robe, esp. of long Persian dresses, A.Pers.468, 1030 (lyr.), 1060 (lyr.), X.Cyr.3.1.13 ; a man's cloak or robe, S.Tr.602, al., E.Cyc.301, Theoc.7.17.
III. peritoneum, dub. in Orph.A.312.
IV. wartweed, Euphorbia Peplus, Hp.Superf.32, Dsc.4.167.
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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