πυρφόρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(parox.), ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[fire-bearing]], esp. of lightning, π. κεραυνός <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>10.71</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>444</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1658</span>; ἀστραπαί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>200</span> (lyr.); Διὸς ἔγχος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1749</span> (lyr.); πυρφόρος αἰθέρος ἀστήρ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span>1050</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">π. οἰστοί</b> arrows [[with combustibles tied to them]], so that they may set fire to woodwork, <span class="bibl">Th.2.75</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">An.</span>2.21.3</span>; τοῖς μὲν π… τοῖς δ' ἄλλοις βέλεσι <span class="bibl">D.S.20.96</span>; <b class="b3">οἱ π</b>. ibid.; <b class="b3">πυρφόρα, τά</b>, ib. <span class="bibl">88</span>; <b class="b3">πυρφόρος, ὁ</b>, <b class="b2">engine for throwing fire, fire-dart</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb.21.7.1</span> (dub.), <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>2.62d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in special senses, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> epith. of several divinities, as of Zeus in reference to his [[lightnings]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1198</span> (anap.); of Demeter, prob. in reference to the [[torches]] used by her worshippers, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>260</span>; similarly <b class="b3">π. θεαί</b> of Demeter and Persephone, <span class="title">IG</span>4.666.9 (Lerna), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>687</span> (lyr.); π. Ἀρτέμιδος αἴγλας <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span> 206</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">Προμηθεὺς π</b>. the [[Fire-bringer]], title of a satyric play of A., cf.<span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>55</span>; also of Capaneus, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>432</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>135</span> (lyr.); of Eros, <span class="title">AP</span>5.87 (Rufin.); but, <b class="b3">θεὸς π</b>. <b class="b2">the fire-bearing</b> god, the god [[who produces plague]] or [[fever]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[bearer of sacred fire]] in the worship of Asclepius, <b class="b3">Ἀσκληπιοῦ δμῶα π</b>. <span class="title">IG</span>3.693; of the Syrian Goddess, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Syr.D.</span>42</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">πυρφόρος, ὁ</b>, in the Spartan army, [[the priest who kept the sacrificial fire]], which was never allowed to go out, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Lac.</span>13.2</span>: hence prov. of a total defeat, ἔδει δὲ μηδὲ πυρφόρον . . περιγενέσθαι <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.6</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.C.39.45</span>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἔσται π</b>. (v.l. [[πυροφόρος]]) τῷ οἴκῳ Ἠσαύ <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ob.</span>18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">π. ἡ ἐκ Δελφῶν</b> [[bearer of sacred fire]] from Delphi, <span class="title">SIG</span>711 <span class="title">D</span> 22 (ii B.C.), cf. 728<span class="title">I</span> (i B.C.); Φοίβου πυρφόροι <span class="title">IG</span>4.666.15 (Lerna); also in a Bacchic thiasos, <span class="title">AJA</span>37.253 (Latium, ii A.D.).</span>