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Περφερέες

Second declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Περφερέες Περφερεοί

Sense

  1. name of the five officers who escorted the Hyperborean maidens to Delos

Examples

  • ἅμα δὲ αὐτῇσι ἀσφαλείησ εἵνεκεν πέμψαι τοὺσ Ὑπερβορέουσ τῶν ἀστῶν ἄνδρασ πέντε πομπούσ, τούτουσ οἳ νῦν Περφερέεσ καλέονται τιμὰσ μεγάλασ ἐν Δήλῳ ἔχοντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 33 3:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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