ἁλουργός

A. wrought in or by the sea, always in sense sea-purple, i.e. genuine purple dye, opp. imitations, ἐμβαίνονθ’ ἁλουργέσιν on cloths of purple, A. Ag. 946; μίτρα ἁ. Pherecr. 100; στρώμαθ’ ἁ. Anaxandr. 41.7; γῆ Pl. Phd. 110c; τὸ ἁ. Arist. Col. 792a7:—less freq. ἁλουργός, όν (also ά, όν Phylarch. 41), ἔρια Pl. R. 429d; χιτωνίσκος IG 2.754.12,14, etc. (but χ. ἁλουργής ib.21); στολαί Phylarch. l.c.; στρωμναί Plu. Lyc. 12, AB 81:—also ἁλουργοῦς, οῦν, IG 2.757, v.l. in Arist. Sens. 442a24, Ion. ἁλοργοῦς GDI 5702.23 (Samos).