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χρυ_σοφόρος , ον,
A.wearing gold, golden ornaments or apparel, “Μῆδοι” Simon.90; “παρθένοι” Lycophronid.1, cf. Hdt.4.104; “δειρή” E.Hec. 152 (anap.).
b. epith. of Ὁμόνοια, BMus.Inscr.4.481*.471 (Ephes., ii A. D.).
2. as a priestly title (cf. “χρυσοφορέω” 1), “συνέδριον χρυσοφόρων” Ephes.2 No.83c; “χ. στρατηγός” BCH28.81 (Tralles); χ. alone, CIG2929 (ibid.).
3. carrying gold, “ἡμίονος” App.Mith.82.
4. producing gold, περὶ χ. γῆς, title of work by Teucer Cyzic. ap. Suid. s.v. Τεῦκρος.
II. χρυσοφόρον, τό, = ἤλεκτρον 1, Dsc.1.83.
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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    • Euripides, Hecuba, 152
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