- πέπλος
- πέπλος, ὁ, in late Poets also with heterocl. pl. πέπλα, AP9.616, Epigr.Gr.418 ([place name] Cyrene) :—A any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, to cover a chariot, funeral-urn, seat, Il.5.194, 24.796, Od.7.96 ; laid over the face of the dead, E.Tr.627, cf. Hec. 432, Ion 1421.II upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women,
π. ἑανός, ποικίλος Il.5.734
, cf. Batr.182, Od.18.292, X.Cyr.5.1.6.2 at Athens, the embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea, IG12.80.11 ;τὸν π. . . ἕλκουσ', ὀνεύοντες . . εἰς ἄκρον ὥσπερ ἱστίον τὸν ἱστόν Stratt.30
;ὁ π. μεστὸς τῶν τοιούτων ποικιλμάτων Pl.Euthphr.6c
, cf. E.Hec.468, Ar.Eq.566, Arist.Ath.49.3, 60.1.b metaph. of a mythological work by Aristotle, Porph. ap. Eust.285.25 : pl., Tz.ad Lyc.488.3 less freq. of a man's robe, esp. of long Persian dresses, A.Pers.468, 1030 (lyr.), 1060 (lyr.), X.Cyr.3.1.13 ; a man's cloak or robe, S.Tr.602, al., E.Cyc.301, Theoc.7.17.III peritoneum, dub. in Orph.A.312.IV wartweed, Euphorbia Peplus, Hp.Superf.32, Dsc.4.167.
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