Amorgina
τὰ ἀμόργινα
Amorgina (τὰ ἀμόργινα), fine muslin-like textures made of ἀμοργίς, a peculiar flax named from the island of Amorgos, but grown also elsewhere. They were finer than βύσσος and κάρπασος (Schol. Aristoph. Lys. 150), almost transparent (Aristoph. l.100.48), and very costly (Pseudo-Plato, Ep. 7.363 A). In the use of the adjective ἀμοργινὸς it is not always clear whether the island or the plant is intended. (Aristoph. Lys. 150, 736; Aeschin. Timarch. § 97; Antiphanes, fr. 152, Meineke; Clearchus, ap. Ath. vi. p. 255 e; Böckh, Publ. Econ. p. 104.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.