Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πορφύρω

; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφύρω

Etym.: only in pres. and imperf.

Sense

  1. gleams darkly, that do not break)
  2. was, troubled
  3. to grow purple or red

Examples

  • "οἱ δὲ κέγχροι νήματι πορφυρῷ πάντεσ εἰσ τὴν εἴσω μοῖραν ἅμματ’ ἔχουσιν ἀνὰ μέσον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:80)
  • ἐν τῷ πορφυρῷ κίονι τῷ ὄντι εἰσ τὸ Φιλαδέλφιον εὔνουσ μὲν βασιλεῖ Μουσήλιοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7991)
  • τοῦτο καὶ αὐτὸσ τὸ ἄγαλμα εἶδον, τελαμῶνι πορφυρῷ τὸν μηρὸν κατειλημένον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. was

  2. to grow purple or red

Related

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

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