Μίθρας
κάλλιστον ἐφόδιον τῷ γήρᾳ ἡ παιδεία (Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius 5.21) → the finest provision for old age is education
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ, Mithras, X.Cyr.7.5.53, Str.15.3.13, IG14.996, al., Porph.Antr.6, etc.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ) :
Mithras :
1 dieu-soleil chez les Perses;
2 n. d'h.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Μίθρας: и Μίθρης, ου ὁ Митра (древнеперсидский бог солнца) Xen. etc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Μίθρας: -ου, ὁ, ὁ παρὰ Πέρσαις θεὸς Ἥλιος, Ξεν. Κύρ. 7. 5, 53, Στράβ. 732· συχν. ἐν ἐπιγραφ. τῶν Ρωμαϊκῶν χρόνων, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 6008 κἑξ· ― Μιθράκινα (ἐξυπακ. ἱερά), τά, Στράβ. 530.
Greek Monolingual
Μίθρας, ὁ (Α)
θεός του φωτός, της δικαιοσύνης, της διαλαγής και του πολέμου.
Greek Monotonic
Μίθρας: -ου, ὁ, Μίθρας, περσική ηλιακή θεότητα, σε Ξεν.
Wikipedia EN
The name Mithras (Latin, equivalent to Greek "Μίθρας",) is a form of Mithra, the name of an Iranian god, a point acknowledged by Mithras scholars since the days of Franz Cumont. The Greek form of the name appears in Xenophon's biography of Cyrus, the Cyropaedia, a work written in the fourth century BC.
The word Mithra occurs as the name of a praiseworthy being in the Zoroastrian text, the Zend Avesta. Similar deity names in related Indo-european languages include Mitra, "मित्रः" found in Rig Vedic hymns. In Sanskrit, "mitra" means "friend" or "friendship".
In the inscribed peace treaty of c. 1400 BC between Hittites and the Hurrian kingdom of the Mitanni in the area southeast of Lake Van in Armenian Highlands, the form mi-it-ra- appears as the name of a god invoked together with four other divinities as witnesses and keepers of the pact. Robert Turcan describes this inscription as "the earliest evidence of Mithras in Asia Minor".
