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λικνοφόρος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: liknophoros

Principal Part: λικνοφόρος λικνοφόρον

Structure: λικνοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φέρω

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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