A.wearing a crown or wreath, “θίασοι” E.Ba.531 (lyr.); χοροί prob. in B.18.51; “ἵπποι” Theoc. 16.47; ς. ἀγών,= στεφανίτης, a contest in which the prize was a crown, Hdt.5.102, And.4.2; hence “Ἀλφειέ, Διὸς ς. ὕδωρ” AP9.362; “ς. ὧραι” Scol.3; “νίκη” APl.4.62.
II. στεφανηφόρος, ὁ, title of certain magistrates in Greek states who had the right of wearing crowns when in office, as the Archons at Athens, “ς. ἀρχή” Aeschin.1.19; compared with the Roman flamen by D.H.2.64, cf. Ath.5.215b, 12.533e; freq. in Inscrr., “Φοίβου ς. ἱρεύς” IG14.1020 (Rome), cf. CIG 2671, al. (Iasus), SIG169.2, al. (ibid., iv B.C.), OGI213.35 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.), al.; and of women, IG12(8).526.7 (Thasos); ὁ ἄρχων τὴν ς. ἀρχήν ib. 12(5).821.6 (Tenos, ii B.C.); “στεφανηφόρος Κλεοπάτρας θεᾶς” PRein.10.6 (ii B.C.); “ς. ἐξηγητεία” PRyl.77.34 (ii A.D.).
III. δραχμαὶ Στεφανηφόρου, i.e. officially minted, the Athenian mint being attached to a temple of the hero Σ., IG22.1013.31, 1028.30 (ii B.C.), cf. Antipho Frr.36, 44: also δραχμὰς στεφανηφόρους with a wreath on the reverse, JHS54.142 (Delos, ii B.C.).
