πέπλος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=![[πέπλος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> in [[late]] Poets with heterog. pl. [[πέπλα]], any [[woven]] [[cloth]] used for a [[covering]], a [[sheet]], [[carpet]], curtain, [[veil]], Il., Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[robe]], [[worn]] by women [[over]] the [[common]] [[dress]], and falling in folds [[about]] the [[person]], [[answering]] to the man's [[ἱμάτιον]] or [[χλαῖνα]], Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> esp. of the [[πέπλος]] of [[Athena]], [[embroidered]] with mythol. subjects, [[which]] was carried like the [[sail]] of a [[galley]] in [[public]] [[procession]] at the Panathenaea, Eur., Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a man's [[robe]], Trag.; esp. of the [[long]] Persian dresses, Aesch.