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μηλοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηλοφόρος μηλοφόρον

Structure: μηλοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bearing apples

Examples

  • αὗται δὲ τὰσ μὲν ἡμέρασ κοιμῶνται ἵνα νυκτὸσ ἐγρηγορῶσι, τῆσ δὲ νυκτὸσ ᾄδουσαι καὶ ψάλλουσαι διατελοῦσι λύχνων καιομένων χρῆται δὲ αὐταῖσ καὶ παλλακίσιν ὁ βασιλεύσ διὰ τῆσ τῶν μηλοφόρων αὐλῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 8 3:2)
  • Δαρεῖοσ μὲν δὴ εὐθὺσ ἐκ τῆσ μάχησ παρὰ τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀρμενίων ἤλαυνεν ἐπὶ Μηδίασ, καὶ ξὺν αὐτῷ οἵ τε Βάκτριοι ἱππεῖσ, ὡσ τότε ἐν τῇ μάχῃ ξυνετάχθησαν, ἔφευγον καὶ Περσῶν οἵ τε συγγενεῖσ οἱ βασιλέωσ καὶ τῶν μηλοφόρων καλουμένων οὐ πολλοί. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 16 1:1)
  • περὶ δὲ τὸν βασιλέα μία μὲν ὑπῆρχε θεραπεία καθωπλισμένη Μακεδόνων, ἄλλη δὲ Περσῶν μηλοφόρων καὶ πρὸ τούτων ὁπλοφόροι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 27 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. bearing apples

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

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