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πέπλος

πέπλος, any woven cloth

πέπλος, ὁ, in late Poets also with heterocl. pl. πέπλα, AP 9.616, Epigr.Gr. 418 (Cyrene):—
  • any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, to cover a chariot, funeral-urn, seat, Il. 5.194, 24.796, Od. 7.96; laid over the face of the dead, E. Tr. 627, cf. Hec. 432, Ion 1421.
    • II upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women, π. ἑανός, ποικίλος Il. 5.734, cf. Batr. 182, Od. 18.292, X. Cyr. 5.1.6.
      • 2 at Athens, the embroidered robe carried in procession at the Panathenaea, IG 1(2).80.11; τὸν π. . . ἕλκουσʼ, ὀνεύοντες . . εἰς ἄκρον ὥσπερ ἱστίον τὸν ἱστόν Stratt. 30; ὁ π. μεστὸς τῶν τοιούτων ποικιλμάτων Pl. Euthphr. 6c, cf. E. Hec. 468, Ar. Eq. 566, Arist. Ath. 49.3, 60.1.
        • b metaph. of a mythological work by Aristotle, Porph. ap. Eust. 285.25: pl., Tz.ad Lyc. 488.
      • 3 less freq. of a manʼs robe, esp. of long Persian dresses, A. Pers. 468, 1030 (lyr.), 1060 (lyr.), X. Cyr. 3.1.13; a manʼs cloak or robe, S. Tr. 602, al., E. Cyc. 301, Theoc. 7.17.
    • III peritoneum, dub. in Orph. A. 312.
    • IV wartweed, Euphorbia Peplus, Hp. Superf. 32, Dsc. 4.167.

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