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πορ-ιστής , οῦ, ὁ,
A.one who supplies or provides, “π. τῶν κακῶν τῷ δήμῳ” Th.8.48; “φύλαξ καὶ π. ἀλλοτρίων χρημάτων” Eus.Mynd.24; “δόξης” Phld.Rh.2.53 S.（Comp.).
b.abs., money-maker, J.AJ19.2.5.
2. pl., at Athens, a financial board appointed to raise extraordinary supplies, Ar.Ra.1505, Antipho 6.49, etc.: hence metaph., “τῶν χρημάτων αὐτοὶ ταμίαι καὶ π.” D.4.33.
3. the name used by robbers of themselves, “οἱ λῃσταὶ αὑτοὺς ποριστὰς καλοῦσι νῦν” Arist.Rh.1405a26.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 49
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 1505
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 1, 33
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.2.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.48
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