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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

  • ἐσθὴσ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἁλουργὶσ καὶ ὁ βίοσ οἱο͂σ ἁβρότατοσ, ὕπνοσ ἐφ̓ ὅσον ἥδιστοσ, φίλων πρόσοδοι καὶ δεήσεισ καὶ τὸ ἅπαντασ ὑποπτήσσειν καὶ προσκυνεῖν, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἑώθεν πρὸσ ταῖσ θύραισ ἄνω καὶ κάτω περιπατήσουσιν, ἐν αὐτοῖσ δὲ καὶ Κλεαίνετοσ καὶ Δημόκριτοσ οἱ πάνυ, καὶ προσελθοῦσί γε αὐτοῖσ καὶ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων εἰσδεχθῆναι ἀξιοῦσι θυρωροὶ ἑπτὰ ἐφεστῶτεσ, εὐμεγέθεισ βάρβαροι, προσαραξάτωσαν ἐσ τὸ μέτωπον εὐθὺ τὴν θύραν, οἱᾶ νῦν αὐτοὶ ποιοῦσιν. (Lucian, 38:1)
  • κλίνη μὲν γὰρ ὁλόχρυσοσ ἦν διάλιθοσ, στρωμνὴ δὲ ἁλουργὶσ ποικίλη, τὸ σῶμα δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ πορφύρᾳ κεκαλυμμένον, καὶ διάδημα μὲν ἐπέκειτο τῇ κεφαλῇ, στέφανοσ δ’ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ χρυσοῦσ, τὸ δὲ σκῆπτρον παρὰ τὴν δεξιάν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 939:2)

Synonyms

  1. purple robe

  2. purple robe

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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