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δωροφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωροφόρος δωροφόρον

Structure: δωροφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bringing presents

Examples

  • τάχ’ οὖν διὰ τοῦτο καὶ Εὐφορίων ὁ ἐποποιὸσ τοὺσ Μαριανδυνοὺσ δωροφόρουσ κέκληκε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:27)
  • "λέγει δὲ καὶ Καλλίστρατοσ ὁ Ἀριστοφάνειοσ ὅτι τοὺσ Μαριανδυνοὺσ ὠνόμαζον μὲν δωροφόρουσ ἀφαιροῦντεσ τὸ πικρὸν τῆσ ἐπί τῶν οἰκετῶν προσηγορίασ, καθάπερ Σπαρτιᾶται μὲν ἐποίησαν ἐπὶ τῶν εἱλώτων, Θετταλοὶ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν πενεστῶν, Κρῆτεσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν κλαρωτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:29)

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

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