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σειραφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σειραφόρος

Structure: σειραφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. led by a rope
  2. a, which draws by the trace only, a trace-horse, outrigger, a yoke-mate, coadjutor, one who has light

Examples

  • ἐπιαλῶ κεντῶν ὑπὸ τὸν πρωκτόν σε τὸν σειραφόρον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:41)
  • τὸν δὲ μὴ πειθάνορα ζεύξω βαρείαισ οὔτι μοι σειραφόρον κριθῶντα πῶλον· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:15)

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

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