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I. Of or belonging to purple, purple: officinae, manufactories of purple, Plin. 35, 6, 27, 46: taberna, Dig. 32, 1, 89: NEGOTIATOR ARTIS PVRPVRARIAE, Inscr. Orell. 4250.—

II. Substt.

A. purpŭrārĭus, ĭi, m., a purple-dyer, Inscr. Orell. 4271 and 4272.—

B. purpŭrārĭa, ae, f.

1. A purpledye house, Inscr. Orell. 2952.—

2. A female dyer in purple, Vulg. Act. 16, 14.—

C. Plur.: Purpŭrārĭae, ārum, f. (sc. insulae), two islands in the Atlantic, now Madeira and Porto Santo, Juba ap. Plin. 6, 32, 37, 203.