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                    "description": "(adjective) : purpŭrĕus, a, um (\n* Gen. sing. purpureaï, Lucr. 2, 52),  id..\n* Lit., purple-colored, purple; including very different shades of color, as red, reddish, violet, brownish, blackish, etc. (mostly poet.): vestitus,Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37: pallium,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 31: flos rosae,Hor. C. 3, 15, 15: amictus,id. Ep. 1, 17, 27; Verg. A. 3, 405; Suet. Ner. 25: pannus,Hor. A. P. 15: aurora,rose-red, red, rosy,Ov. M. 3, 184: rubor (oris),id. Tr. 4, 3, 70; cf. os,Hor. C. 3, 3, 12: ignis in ore Purpureus,Stat. Achill. 1, 161: anima,i. e. blood,Verg. A. 9, 349: purpureus lunae sanguine vultus erat,Ov. Am. 1, 8, 12: purpureus venit in ora pudor,id. ib. 2, 5, 34: genae,id. ib. 1, 4, 22: papavera,Prop. 1, 20, 38: sapa,Ov. F. 4, 780: lactuca,Col. 11, 2, 26: merum,Ov. A. A. 2, 316: capillus,Verg. G. 1, 405: mustum,Prop. 3, 15 (4, 16), 17: ficus,Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 69: mare illud, quod nunc Favonio nascente purpureum videtur,i. e. blackish, dark,Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105: fluctus,Prop. 2, 20 (3, 21), 5 (cf. the Homeric πορφύρεον κῦμα): pruna,Col. 12, 10, 4: vites,id. 3, 2, 1.\n* Transf.\n* Clothed in purple (poet. for purpuratus): tyranni,Hor. C. 1, 35, 12: rex,Ov. M. 7, 102: filius,id. P. 2, 8, 50; Mart. 6, 11, 8 al.: purpureus pennis,i.e. with purple feathers upon his helmet,Verg. A. 10, 722: torus,covered with purple,Mart. 12, 17, 8.\n* Brilliant, shining, bright, beautiful (poet.): olores,Hor. C. 4, 1, 10: lumen,Verg. A. 1, 590: lux,Ov. F. 6, 252: vultus Bacchi,Stat. Th. 7, 148: Amor,Ov. Am. 2, 1, 38; cf. alae,id. R. Am. 701: orbes (i. e. oculi),beautiful eyes,Val. Fl. 3, 178: ver, Col. poët. 10, 256: bracchia purpurea candidiora nive,shining,Albin. 2, 62."
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