Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πυρφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρφόρος πυρφόρον

Structure: πυρφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. fire-bearing, with combustibles tied to them
  2. the fire-bearing, who produces plague or fever
  3. the priest who kept the sacrificial fire

Examples

  • εἴθε με πυρφόροσ αἰθέροσ ἀστὴρ ‐ τὸν βάρβαρον ἐξολέσειεν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric13)
  • ἀντιτύπᾳ δ’ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε τανταλωθεὶσ πυρφόροσ, ὃσ τότε μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ βακχεύων ἐπέπνει ῥιπαῖσ ἐχθίστων ἀνέμων. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)
  • οὐδέποτ’ οὐδέποτ’, ἴσθι τόδ’ ἔμπεδον, οὐδ’ εἰ πυρφόροσ ἀστεροπητὴσ βροντᾶσ αὐγαῖσ μ’ εἶσι φλογίζων. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, epode12)
  • ἐν δ’ ὁ πυρφόροσ θεὸσ σκήψασ ἐλαύνει, λοιμὸσ ἔχθιστοσ, πόλιν, ὑφ’ οὗ κενοῦται δῶμα Καδμεῖον, μέλασ δ’ Αἵδησ στεναγμοῖσ καὶ γόοισ πλουτίζεται. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:5)
  • ἐν δ’ ὁ πυρφόροσ θεὸσ Τιτὰν Προμηθεύσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:21)

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

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