Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπόρφυρος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόρφυρος

Etym.: porfu/ra

Sense

  1. without purple border

Examples

  • τῶν συνήθων οὔτε ταῖσ χρυσαῖσ παρέχει πράγματα τραπέζαισ οὔτε τοῖσ χρυσοῖσ ἐκπώμασιν ἀλλὰ χρῆται τοῖσ προστυχοῦσι, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἄχρυσοσ καὶ ἀπόρφυροσ καὶ ἀφελὴσ πάρεστιν· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 10 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. without purple border

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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