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ἁλουργίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁλουργίς ἁλουργίδος

Structure: ἁλουργιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a(lourgh/s

Sense

  1. purple robe
  2. (attributive, with ἐσθής, false reading in Lucian, The Ship 22) purple robe

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ πρὸσ μὲν τὴν κάμηλον εφοβήθησαν καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἔφυγον ἀναθορόντεσ, καίτοι χρυσῶ πᾶσα ἐκεκόσμητο καὶ ἁλουργίδι ἐπέστρωτο και ὁ χαλινὸσ ἦν λιθοκόλλητοσ, Δαρείου τινὸσ ἢ Καμβύσου ἢ Κύρου αὐτοῦ κειμήλιον· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 10:2)
  • καὶ πολλοὶ μὲν ἄνθρωποι συνῆλθον, αὐτὸσ δὲ προὐκάθητο μετὰ τῶν ἀρίστων, ἁλουργίδι κεκοσμημένοσ. (Plutarch, chapter 14 4:3)
  • τὴν καὶ ἅμα χρυσῷ καὶ ἁλουργίδι καὶ σὺν Ἔρωτι θρυπτομένην, ἁπαλῆσ Κύπριδοσ ἁβροτέραν Λαΐδ’ ἔχω, πολιῆτιν ἁλιζώνοιο Κορίνθου, Πειρήνησ λευκῶν φαιδροτέραν λιβάδων, τὴν θνητὴν Κυθέρειαν, ἐφ’ ᾗ μνηστῆρεσ ἀγαυοὶ πλείονεσ ἢ νύμφησ εἵνεκα Τυνδαρίδοσ, δρεπτόμενοι χάριτάσ τε καὶ ὠνητὴν ἀφροδίτην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2181)
  • ἡ δὲ βουλὴ Σκιπίωνα μὲν ἐπῄνει, Φαμέαν δ’ ἐτίμησαν ἁλουργίδι καὶ ἐπιπορπήματι χρυσῷ καὶ ἵππῳ χρυσοφαλάρῳ καὶ πανοπλίᾳ καὶ ἀργυρίου δραχμαῖσ μυρίαισ, ἔδωκαν δὲ καὶ μνῶν ἑκατὸν ἀργύρωμα καὶ σκηνὴν καὶ κατασκευὴν ἐντελῆ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 5:9)

Synonyms

  1. purple robe

  2. purple robe

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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