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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

  • ἦν δὲ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τραγῳδία μεγάλη περὶ τὸν Δημήτριον, οὐ μόνον ἀμπεχόμενον καὶ διαδούμενον περιττῶσ καυσίαισ διμίτροισ καὶ χρυσοπαρύφοισ ἁλουργίσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοῖσ ποσὶν ἐκ πορφύρασ ἀκράτου συμπεπιλημένησ χρυσοβαφεῖσ πεποιημένον ἐμβάδασ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 41 4:1)
  • πλὴν ὅταν ἐκ πολέμου νίκην κατάγοντεσ θριάμβου παρὰ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀξιωθῶσι, τότε καὶ χρυσοφοροῦσι καὶ ποικίλαισ ἁλουργίσιν ἀμφιέννυνται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 62 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. purple robe

  2. purple robe

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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