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                    "description": "<b>ου (τὸ) :<br\/>      1<\/b> huître <i>ou en gén<\/i>. coquillage bivalve, COM. (ATH. <i>92<\/i> b, <i>etc<\/i>.) ; PLUT. <i>M. 967<\/i> c, <i>etc. ;<\/i><br\/><b>      2<\/b> teinture de pourpre, PLAT. <i>Crat. 424<\/i> d.<p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>cf. lat<\/i>. ostrea.<\/p>"
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                    "description": "or ὄστρειον, τό, <b>oyster<\/b>; the proper <i>Att.<\/i> form is ὄστρειον (ὄστρεια… ἔλεγον οἱ ἀρχαῖοι Ath. 3.92e, cf. Moer. p. 285 P. (who recommends ὀστρία [ι] wrongly), Phot., etc.), and this is required by the metre in the earlier Poets, κόγχοι, μύες, κὤστρεια A. <i>Fr.<\/i> 34; ὄστρεια συμμεμυκότα Epich. 42 (ὄστρεα codd. Ath.); πίννῃσι καὶ ὀστρείοισιν ὁμοίη Cratin. 8; πίνναι, λεπάδες, μύες, ὄστρεια Anaxandr. 41.61 (anap.); while ὄστρεον is used in late Ep., Matro <i>Conv.<\/i> 16, Nic. <i>Fr.<\/i> 83, and is found in Pap., PCair. Zen. 82.13 (iii BC), POxy. 738.5 (i AD); — the readings vary in Pl. (v. infr. III), as in Arist., cf. <i>HA<\/i> 490b10, 525a20; generally, of all <b>bivalves<\/b>, <i>ib.<\/i> 525a20, 528a1, <i>Fr.<\/i> 304, Gal. 12.345.<br\/><b>oyster-<\/b> or <b>bivalve-shell<\/b>, Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 531b5, 590a32.<br\/><b>purple pigment<\/b>, prob. that produced by the murex, cf. Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 548a12; ὄστρεον μόνον ἐπιφέρειν Pl. <i>Cra.<\/i> 424d; ὀστρείῳ ἐναληλιμμένος Id. <i>R.<\/i> 420c; τὰ σώματα ἐκέχριντο ὀστρείῳ Callix. 2; ὄστρεα· τὰ κογχύλια, Λάκωνες ἄνθος, Hsch."
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