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ἐπίφορ-ος , ον, （ἐπιφέρω）
A.carrying towards, “εἰ ἄνεμος ἐπεγένετο τῇ φλογὶ ἐπίφορος ἐς [τὴν πόλιν]” Th.3.74, cf. 2.77 ; favourable, of winds. Paus.8.28.4 ; “ἐπιφορώτατος [Ἑρμῆς]” A.Ch.813 (lyr.).
II. leaning or prone to a thing, ἐ. κάτω ῥέψαι gloss in Hp.Art.14 (Comp.) ; “πρὸς δεισιδαιμονίαν” Plu.2.703d ; well-suited, “εἴς τι” Longin.5, Plu.2.623d. Adv. “-ρως, ἔχειν πρός τι” Str.12.3.26.
b. of documents, applicable, relationg to the matter in hand (cf. “ἐπιφέρω” 1.9), POxy.266.14, 1282.33 (i A. D.).
2. of ground, sloping, Hp.Ep.17.
III. pregnant, Id.Prorrh.1.103 ; near the time of bringing forth, X.Cyn.7.2 ; of plants, Thphr.CP3.2.8.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 813
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.28.4
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.77
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.74
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 7.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.3.26
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 14
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