tutelary
From LSJ
Ὁ κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες → The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
P. and V. σωτήριος, V. προστατήριος, ἀλεξητήριος.
protecting a country, as epithet of some god: Ar. and P. πολιοῦχος (Plato), P. and V. ἑστιοῦχος (Plato also Ar.), V. δημοῦχος, πολισσοῦχος.
be tutelary of v.: P. and V. ἔχειν (acc.) (Dem. 274), P. λαγχάνειν (acc.) (Plato), Ar. and V. προστατεῖν (gen.), ἐπισκοπεῖν (acc.), V. ἀμφέπειν (acc.).
tutelary guardian, subs.: P. and V. ἐπίσκοπος, ὁ or ἡ (Plato).
the neighbouring fields claim Colonus as their tutelary hero: V. οἱ πλήσιοι γύαι… Κολωνὸν εὔχονται σφίσιν ἀρχηγὸν εἶναι (Soph., Oedipus Coloneus 58; cf. Plato, Timaeus 21E).
