ἐμπόρφυρος
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English (LSJ)
ον, A inclining to purple, Dsc.3.100, Orib.Syn.2.56.17, Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).251.
German (Pape)
[Seite 817] etwas purpurn, Diosc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐμπόρφῠρος: -ον, = κλίνων πρὸς τὸ πορφυροῦν χρῶμα, ὑποπόρφυρος, Διοσκ. 3. 114.
Spanish (DGE)
-ον
purpúreo, de color púrpura frec. de plantas ἄνθη (βακχάριδος) Dsc.3.44.1, cf. 4.162.1, ἡ γιζηρά Orib.Syn.2.56.17, κόκκοι (γλυκυσίδης) Dsc.3.140.1, cf. Iul.Laod. en Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).251, ὑποκυάνεον ἔχει τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ μᾶλλον γε ἐμπόρφυρον la paloma torcaz, Alex.Mynd.p.552W., λινούδιον POxy.114.8 (II/III d.C.).
Greek Monolingual
ἐμπόρφυρος, -ον (Α)
κάπως πορφυρός, ελαφρώς πορφυρός, όχι βαθύς κόκκινος.
