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λικνοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λικνοφόρος λικνοφόρον

Structure: λικνοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying the sacred, in procession

Examples

  • μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθ’ αὐτὸν φθέγγεσθαι μὲν οὕτω μέγα, ὀλολύζειν δ’ οὐχ ὑπέρλαμπρον, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἡμέραισ τοὺσ καλοὺσ θιάσουσ ἄγων διὰ τῶν ὁδῶν, τοὺσ ἐστεφανωμένουσ τῷ μαράθῳ καὶ τῇ λεύκῃ, τοὺσ ὄφεισ τοὺσ παρείασ θλίβων καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ αἰωρῶν, καὶ βοῶν εὐοῖ σαβοῖ, καὶ ἐπορχούμενοσ ὑῆσ ἄττησ ἄττησ ὑῆσ, ἔξαρχοσ καὶ προηγεμὼν καὶ κιττοφόροσ καὶ λικνοφόροσ καὶ τοιαῦθ’ ὑπὸ τῶν γρᾳδίων προσαγορευόμενοσ, μισθὸν λαμβάνων τούτων ἔνθρυπτα καὶ στρεπτοὺσ καὶ νεήλατα, ἐφ’ οἷσ τίσ οὐκ ἂν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ αὑτὸν εὐδαιμονίσειε καὶ τὴν αὑτοῦ τύχην; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 372:1)

Synonyms

  1. carrying the sacred

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

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