purpura
purpura
ae,
f
, porfu/ra, purple
color, purple: violae sublucet purpura nigrae, V.: certantem uvam purpurae, H.—Purple stuff, purple
cloth, purple garment: plebeia ac paene fusca: usque ad talos
demissa, i. e. the toga praetexta: purpurarum
usus, i. e. splendid attire, H.—Of kings and magistrates, the
purple, purple robe: regalis: regum, V.: Purpura Pompeium summi velabit honoris, O.: Laconicas
Trahunt purpuras, H.: nova purpura fulget, i.
e. of newly elected consuls, O.