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English (LSJ)

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   A shell-fish with a spiral shell, used for dyeing purple, Lat. murex, Arist.HA528a1, AP5.227 (Paul. Sil.); used as a trumpet, E.IT303, Theoc.22.75, Mosch.2.124: also fem., Naumach. ap. Stob.4.31.76, Paus.3.21.6; Κασπίῃ ἐν κ., of a large sea-shell, A.R.3.859.    2 land snail, Arist.Mir.846b13.    3 kohl, Eust.728.47.