Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θυρσοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυρσοφόρος θυρσοφόρον

Structure: θυρσοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. thyrsus-bearing

Examples

  • θυρσοφόροσ μέγα πρεσβεύων Διόνυσοσ φησὶν Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐλεγείοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 681)
  • τᾧ δ’ ἡμετέρῳ χορῷ οἶνοσ φίλοσ θυρσοφόροσ μέγα πρεσβεύων Διόνυσοσ’ φησιν Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐλεγείοισ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1)

Synonyms

  1. thyrsus-bearing

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

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