πορφυρ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
purple garment or covering, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; distinguished from φοινικίς,[[ [prev. work] 8.3.3, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.55; π. θαλαττία 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 38.7.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; π. ἐξίτηλοι, opposed to ἀληθιναί, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 10.3, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.196, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 10, “Nigr.” 13,etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II a purple-coloured bird, τανύπτερος ὡς ὅκα π. [[ 6th c.BC: Ibycus Lyricus 4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 304, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 100c2. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__III ={ἄγχουσα}, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.23. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III.2 ={ὠκιμοειδές}, [[[prev. work]28. ] Refs]