A.watcher, guard, IG12.11.9, al., 42(1).40.16 (Epid., v/iv B. C.), E.Ion22, Rh.506; φρουροὺς ἐγκατέλιπον left a garrison in a place, Th.2.6, cf. 4.25; “ἐκβάλλειν τοὺς φ.” Id.8.108; “οἱ φ. οἱ ἐν Ἄνδρῳ” IG22.123.10; “οἳ . . ἄριστοι φ. τε καὶ φύλακες . . εἰσί” Pl.R.560b; identified with φύλακες, X.Cyr.8.6.1,3; “τοὺς φύλακας οἷον φρουρούς” Arist.Pol.1264a26. (Contr. from Προορός (cf. οὖρος (B)), as φροίμιον from προοίμιον, φροῦδος from πρὸ ὁδοῦ.）
φρουρός , ὁ,
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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