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εὐπάρυφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπάρυφος εὐπάρυφον

Structure: εὐπαρυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: parufh/

Sense

  1. with fine purple border
  2. wearing such a garment

Examples

  • πολλῶν οὖν ἤδη παρόντων, ξένοσ τισ ὥσπερ εὐπάρυφοσ ἐκ κωμῳδίασ ἐσθῆτί τε περιττῇ καὶ ἀκολουθίᾳ παίδων ὑποσολοικότεροσ, ἧκεν ἄχρι τῶν θυρῶν τοῦ ἀνδρῶνοσ, καὶ κύκλῳ ταῖσ ὄψεσιν ἐπελθὼν τοὺσ κατακειμένουσ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν εἰσελθεῖν ἀλλ’ ᾤχετ’ ἀπιών· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 3:2)
  • δείξασα δέ μοι τὰ τοσαῦτα κἀμὲ τοῖσ ἐπαινοῦσιν ἐκείνοισ ἐπανήγαγεν αὖθισ, οὐκέτι τὴν αὐτὴν ἐσθῆτα ἐκείνην ἐνδεδυκότα ἣν εἶχον ἀφιπτάμενοσ, ἀλλά μοι ἐδόκουν εὐπάρυφόσ τισ ἐπανήκειν, καταλαβοῦσα οὖν καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἑστῶτα καὶ περιμένοντα ἐδείκνυεν αὐτῷ ἐκείνη ^ τὴν ἐσθῆτα κἀμέ, οἱο͂σ ἥκοιμι, καί τι καὶ ὑπέμνησεν οἱᾶ μικροῦ δεῖν περὶ ἐμοῦ ἐβουλεύσαντο. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. with fine purple border

Related

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

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