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PURPLE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 665 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PURPLE , a colour-name, now given to a shade varying between crimson and
violet
 . Formerly it was used, as the origin of the name shows, of the deep crimson colour called in Latin purpura, purpureus and in Greek irop4iupa, 7rop4djxoS (from aoprOpecv, to grow dark, especially used of the sea). This was properly the name of the shellfish (Purpura, Murex) which yielded the famous Tyrian dye, the particular mark of the dress of emperors, kings,
chief
  magistrates and other dignitaries, whence " the purple " still signifies the rank of emperors or kings.
The
title
  of porphyrogenitus (Gr. rropupo,rivvq-ros) was borne particularly by
Constantine
  VII.,
Byzantine
  emperor, but was also used generally of those born of the
Byzantine
  imperial family. This
title
 , generally translated " born in the purple," either refers to the purple
robes
  in which the imperial children were wrapped at
birth
 , or to a chamber or
part
  of the imperial palace, called the Porphyra (2r6p4upa), where the births took place. Whether this Porphyra signified a chamber with purple hangings or lined with
porphyry
  is not known (see Selden, Titles of Honour, ed. 1672, p. 6o seq.).


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