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φορ-ητός , ή, όν, also ός, όν E. Hipp.443, Luc.Salt.27:
I. borne, carried, “φορητὰ κυμάτεσσιν” Pi.Fr. 88.1; “φ. ὕδωρ” Str.3.2.8; φ. ὑπὸ (v.l. ἐπὶ）“ δελφίνων” Plu.2.163c; of the planets, Poll.4.156.
2. to be carried, moveable, “οἰκίαι” Ph.2.238; ἱερόν ib.146: metaph., “ἄστατος καὶ φ.” constantly moving, Id.1.219; [“φύσις] μετάβολος καὶ φ.” Plu.2.428b; “τὸ τῆς φύσεως φ.” Hierocl. in CA7p.429M.
II. bearable, endurable, A.Pr.979; Κύπρις γὰρ οὐ φορητός E.l.c.; “φορητὸς ἡ ᾠδή” Luc. l.c., cf. Tim.23, Jul.Gal. 201e; “ἐμβολὴ οὐ φ.” irresistible, Arr.Tact.12.10.
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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