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θυρεοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυρεοφόρος θυρεοφόρον

Structure: θυρεοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from qureo/s

Sense

  1. bearing a shield

Examples

  • λαβὼν οὖν ὁ νεανίασ ἱππεῖσ τε χιλίουσ τριακοσίουσ, ὧν οἱ χίλιοι παρὰ Καίσαροσ ἦσαν, καὶ τοξότασ πεντακοσίουσ καὶ τῶν ἔγγιστα θυρεοφόρων ὀκτὼ σπείρασ συνήγαγεν εἰσ ἐμβολήν. (Plutarch, chapter 25 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. bearing a shield

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

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