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σπονδοφόρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπονδοφόρος

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. one who brings proposals for a truce or treaty of peace
  2. a herald or officer who published the sacred

Examples

  • οὐκ ἂν ἐπ’ ἐμῆσ γε νεότητοσ, ὅτ’ ἐγὼ φέρων ἀνθράκων φορτίον ἠκολούθουν Φαύ̈λλῳ τρέχων, ὧδε φαύλωσ ἂν ὁ σπονδοφόροσ οὗτοσ ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ τότε διωκόμενοσ ἐξέφυγεν οὐδ’ ἂν ἐλαφρῶσ ἂν ἀπεπλίξατο. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, strophe 13)
  • ὁ δὲ δὴ σπονδοφόροσ καὶ θεωρὸσ τῶν Κυζικηνῶν πῶσ ἀφεὶσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσ Ἰνδοὺσ ἔπλει; (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 10:15)

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

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