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ἐσθής

ἐσθής, dress, clothing, raiment

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ἐσθῆτός feminine genitive singular of ἐσθής

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ἐσθής, ῆτος, Dor. ἐσθάς, ᾶτος, Pi. P. 4.79, 253, ἡ, acc. ἐσθήν SIG 1215.7 (Myconos, iii/ii B.C.): (ἕννυμι):—
  • clothing, raiment, χαλκόν τε χρυσόν τε ἅλις ἐσθῆτά τε δόντες Od. 5.38; χρηστηρία ἐ. the dress of prophetesses, A. Ag. 1270; Ἀργολὶς ἐ. Id. Supp. 237; μετρίᾳ ἐσθῆτι χρήσασθαι to dress simply, Th. 1.6: καθαρὰ ἐ., = Lat. toga pura, Nic. Dam. Fr. 127 J.; τὴν ἐσθῆτα μεταβαλεῖν, = Lat. mutare vestem, put on mourning, D.C. 37.33 (but τὰς ἐσθῆτας μεταβαλέσθαι Plu. Pomp. 59): in pl., 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 Pl. Grg. 465b.
    • II collectively, clothes, ἐσθῆτα ἔσφερον εἴσω, i.e. the clothes just washed, Od. 7.6; ἔντυον εὐνὴν ἐσθῆτος μαλακῆς 23.290; τὰ ἐσθῆτος ἐχόμενα εἶχον κατηρείκοντο Hdt. 3.66, cf. X. An. 3.1.19: rarely in later Gr., Plu. CG 2, PThead. 49.4 (iv A.D.), POxy. 2110.5 (iv A.D.).
    • III metaph., ἐ. τῆς πόλεως, of walls, Demad. Fr. 4.

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