στεφανηφόρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(parox.), ον, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[wearing a crown]] or [[wreath]], θίασοι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>531</span> (lyr.); [[χοροί]] prob. in <span class="bibl">B.18.51</span>; ἵπποι Theoc. <span class="bibl">16.47</span>; <b class="b3">σ. ἀγών</b>,= [[στεφανίτης]], a contest [[in which the prize was a crown]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.102</span>, <span class="bibl">And.4.2</span>; hence Ἀλφειέ, Διὸς σ. ὕδωρ <span class="title">AP</span>9.362; σ. ὧραι <span class="title">Scol.</span>3; νίκη <span class="title">APl.</span>4.62. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">στεφανηφόρος, ὁ</b>, title of certain magistrates in Greek states [[who had the right of wearing crowns]] when in office, as the Archons at Athens, σ. ἀρχή <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.19</span>; compared with the Roman [[flamen]] by <span class="bibl">D.H.2.64</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ath.5.215b</span>, <span class="bibl">12.533e</span>; freq. in Inscrr., Φοίβου σ. ἱρεύς <span class="title">IG</span>14.1020 (Rome), cf. <span class="title">CIG</span> 2671, al. (Iasus), <span class="title">SIG</span>169.2, al. (ibid., iv B.C.), <span class="title">OGI</span>213.35 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.), al.; and of women, <span class="title">IG</span>12(8).526.7 (Thasos); <b class="b3">ὁ ἄρχων τὴν σ. ἀρχήν</b> ib. 12(5).821.6 (Tenos, ii B.C.); στεφανηφόρος Κλεοπάτρας θεᾶς <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRein.</span>10.6</span> (ii B.C.); σ. ἐξηγητεία <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>77.34</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">δραχμαὶ Στεφανηφόρου</b>, i.e. officially minted, the Athenian mint being attached to a temple of the hero [[Σ]]., <span class="title">IG</span>22.1013.31, 1028.30 (ii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl">Antipho <span class="title">Frr.</span>36</span>, <span class="bibl">44</span>: also <b class="b3">δραχμὰς στεφανηφόρους</b> [[with a wreath on the reverse]], <span class="title">JHS</span>54.142 (Delos, ii B.C.).</span>