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μυριοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυριοφόρος μυριοφόρον

Structure: μυριοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying, measures

Examples

  • ἡμῖν δὲ οὔτε ἀνοῖξαι πίθον ὕμνων οὔθ’ ἁρ́μα μουσαῖον οὔθ’ ὁλκάδα μυριοφόρον οὔτε νεφέλασ, οὐ γρῦπασ οὐδὲ τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν ἔξεστιν εἰπεῖν, οὔτε θρασύνασθαι οὔτ’ ἐπεμβαλεῖν λόγον ἔξω τοῦ πράγματοσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ δεῖ μένειν ἐν τῷ μέτρῳ καὶ μεμνῆσθαι παρὰ πάντα ἑαυτοῦ, οἱο͂ν ἐπὶ στρατείασ τὴν τάξιν φυλάττοντα. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. carrying

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

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