ἐσθής, ῆτος,
Doric dialect ἐσθάς, ᾶτος, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.79, 253 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], ἡ, accusative ἐσθήν [[ “SIG” 1215.7 (Myconos, 3rd-2nd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: (ἕννυμι):—clothing, raiment, χαλκόν τε χρυσόν τε ἅλις ἐσθῆτά τε δόντες [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.38 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χρηστηρία ἐ. the dress of prophetesses, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1270; Ἀργολὶς ἐ. [prev. author] “Supp.” 237 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μετρίᾳ ἐσθῆτι χρήσασθαι to dress simply, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6: καθαρὰ ἐ.,] Refs 5th c.BC+] = Latin toga pura, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “fragment” 127 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὴν ἐσθῆτα μεταβαλεῖν, = Latin mutare vestem, put on mourning, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.33 (but τὰς ἐσθῆτας μεταβαλέσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 59)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: in plural, of the clothes of several persons, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 872 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of one, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 421: abstract _plural_, πλούτους καὶ τρυφὰς καὶ ἐσθῆτας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.122c, compare conjecture in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1386a32, uncertain in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 465b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II collectively, clothes, ἐσθῆτα ἔσφερον εἴσω, i.e. the clothes just washed, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.6; ἔντυον εὐνὴν ἐσθῆτος μαλακῆς 23.290; τὰ ἐσθῆτος ἐχόμενα εἶχον κατηρείκοντο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in later Gr., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “C. Gracchus” 2, “PThead.” 49.4 (4th c.AD), “POxy.” 2110.5 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]