A.carpet, rug, “τάπητα φέρεν μαλακοῦ ἐρίοιο” Od.4.124; “χλαινάων . . οὔλων τε ταπήτων” Il.16.224; spread on seats and beds, “εἷσεν δ᾽ ἐν κλισμοῖσι τάπησί τε πορφυρέοισιν” 9.200, cf. 10.156, 24.645, Od.4.298, 10.12, Herod.2.44, SIG1106.121 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); “φορμὸν ἔχειν ἀντὶ τάπητος” Ar.Pl.542; τάπης Αἰγύπτιος, Ἆφρος, etc., Edict.Diocl.19.21,24, al.--Later Att. forms are τάπις, δάπις (qq. v.).
τάπης [α^], ητος, ὁ,