A.wearing a τέττιξ, as the Athenians were called, because in early times they wore golden τέττιγες, as a token that they were αὐτόχθονες (cf. “τέττιξ” 1.2, τεττιγομήτρα), Ar.Eq. 1331 (anap.): also τεττι_γο-φόρος , ον, Eust.395.34: hence τεττι_γο-φορία , ἡ, Tz. H.1.233.
τεττι_γο-φόρας , ου, ὁ, (φέρω)
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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