Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νικηφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νικηφόρος

Structure: νικηφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bringing victory
  2. bearing off the prize, conquering, victorious

Examples

  • "γεραίροντεσ ἀεὶ τοὺσ νικηφόρουσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 4:5)
  • δεῖ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, ἐπείπερ ἠρξάμεθα, ἀθλοφόρουσ τε λεχθῆναι καὶ νικηφόρουσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ ᾤεσθε δεῖν ἐπὶ μὲν τὰσ πανηγύρεισ καὶ τοὺσ στεφανίτασ ἀγῶνασ τοὺσ ἄριστα πεφυκότασ καὶ τοῖσ σώμασι προὔχοντασ ἐγκριθέντασ ἀσκεῖσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ τῶν μεγίστων καὶ ἀληθινῶν ἔργων ἀγωνιστὰσ καὶ νικηφόρουσ ἐσομένουσ ὁπόσοισ ἂν τύχῃ νικᾶν ὑπὲρ ἀρχῆσ τοιαύτησ, τούτουσ δὲ ἐπὶ καιροῦ συνελθεῖν καὶ μὴ πόρρωθεν τοὺσ μεγίστουσ τε καὶ μάλιστα ἐπιτηδειοτάτουσ ἐξ ἁπάντων ἐπιλεχθέντασ ἀσκεῖσθαι, ὅπωσ εὐθὺσ ἑστῶτεσ ὑπερέχοιεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:7)
  • ἔστω μηδένα μηδὲν ὁ κυβερνήτησ βελτίω ποιῶν, ἀλλὰ Μιλτιάδησ καὶ πρὶν εἰσ τὸν κίνδυνον ἐμβαίνειν ἅπαντασ ἤσκει πρὸσ τὸ βέλτιστον, καὶ ἰδιώτασ ἐξαγαγὼν ὡσ εἰπεῖν ἐπανήγαγε νικηφόρουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 55:7)

Synonyms

  1. bringing victory

  2. bearing off the prize

Related

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

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