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πτερο-φόρα_ς , ου, ὀ, a name of certain sacred officers in Egypt, so called from the hawk's
A.wing worn on their heads, nom. pl. “-φόραι” OGI56.4 (Canopus, iii B.C.), 90.7 (Rosetta, ii B.C.): also -φόροι, Hsch.; cf. sq. 111, and πτεραφόρος.
II. dat. sg. -φόρᾳ χιλιάρχῳ, perh. name of a military rank, or = πτεροφόρος 11, Men.Pk.104, cf. Hsch. s.v. πτεροφόροι.
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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