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Notes

1. = Synagoge pi807, Photius pi1554 Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius pi4399-4400, Photius pi1551, and esp. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenician Women 1087 (web address 1), where the headword, masculine nominative plural of this participle, occurs.
   This rare middle/passive present participle, from a verb purghre/omai, is related to the adjective purgh/rhs ('fitted with towers') and is glossed by LSJ (web address 2) as 'being shut up as in a tower'. The meaning, however, could be understood equally well in most cases as 'being shut up behind the towers [i.e. the city walls]', or -- as is appropriate to the present gloss -- 'staging a defense from the towers [sc. city walls]'. Most attestations occupy an ambiguous position between these connotations, including the Euripides passage cited above, as well as Euripides' probable model, Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes↗ 22 (web address 3) and 184 (web address 4), and Euripides, Orestes 1574 (web address 5).