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|Definition=ἐσθῆτος, Dor. [[ἐσθάς]], ἐσθᾶτος, Pi.''P.''4.79, 253, ἡ, acc.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ἐσθήν ''SIG'' 1215.7 (Myconos, iii/ii B.C.): ([[ἕννυμι]]):—[[clothing]], [[raiment]], χαλκόν τε χρυσόν τε ἅλις ἐσθῆτά τε δόντες Od.5.38; <b class="b3">χρηστηρία ἐσθής</b> the [[dress]] of [[prophetess]]es, A.''Ag.''1270; Ἀργολὶς ἐσθής Id.''Supp.''237; <b class="b3">μετρίᾳ ἐσθῆτι χρήσασθαι</b> to [[dress]] simply, Th.1.6: <b class="b3">καθαρὰ ἐσθής</b>, = Lat. [[toga pura]], Nic. Dam.''Fr.''127 J.; <b class="b3">τὴν ἐσθῆτα μεταβαλεῖν</b>, = Lat. [[mutare vestem]], put on mourning, D.C.37.33 (but τὰς ἐσθῆτας μεταβαλέσθαι Plu.''Pomp.''59): in plural, of the clothes of [[several]] persons, A.''Th.''872 (anap.); of [[one]], E. ''Hel.''421: abstract pl., πλούτους καὶ τρυφὰς καὶ ἐσθῆτας Pl.''Alc.''1.122c, cf. cj. in Arist.''Rh.''1386a32, dub. in [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 465b.<br><span class="bld">II</span> collectively, [[clothes]], <b class="b3">ἐσθῆτα ἔσφερον εἴσω</b>, i.e. the [[clothes]] just [[wash]]ed, Od.7.6; ἔντυον εὐνὴν ἐσθῆτος μαλακῆς 23.290; τὰ ἐσθῆτος ἐχόμενα εἶχον κατηρείκοντο [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.66, cf. X.''An.''3.1.19: rarely in later Gr., Plu.''CG''2, ''PThead.''49.4(iv A.D.), ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''2110.5 (iv A.D.).<br><span class="bld">III</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ἐσθής τῆς πόλεως</b>, of [[wall]]s, Demad.''Fr.''4.