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|Definition=ὁ, gen. [[φωρός]], dat. pl. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> φωρσί <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>9.45</span>:—[[thief]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.174</span>, etc.; φώρ τινος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>334a</span>; Ἀργεῖοι φῶρες <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>57</span>; φ. ἄνθρωποι <span class="bibl">Paus.10.15.5</span>; <b class="b3">ἔγνω δὲ φώρ τε φῶρα καὶ λύκος λύκον</b> prov. in <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">EE</span>1235a9</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ τῶν φ. κρείττω</b> prov. in <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1</span>: Sup. φώρτατος [[most thievish]], <span class="bibl">Sophr.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[bee]], prob. [[robber-bee]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>553b9</span>, <span class="bibl">625a5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">φωρῶν λιμήν</b>, a harbour near Athens, a little westward of the Piraeus, used by [[smugglers]], <span class="bibl">D.35.28</span>,53, <span class="bibl">Str.9.1.14</span>. (Like Lat. [[fur]], from <b class="b2">bher-</b> (root of [[φέρω]]), cf. <b class="b3">ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν</b>.) </span>