ξιφηφόρος
ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death
English (LSJ)
ον,
A bearing a sword, sword in hand, E.Or.1504,al.; ξ. ἀγῶνες A.Ch.584, E.HF812 (lyr.); βρόχοι ib.730; χεῖρες Antiph.217.19,cf. Callistr.Stat.13: as Subst., swordsman, Hdn.7.10.7. II = ξιφίας 11, Sch.Arat.1091.
German (Pape)
[Seite 279] ein Schwert tragend; Eur. Ion 980; auch ἀγῶνες, Aesch. Ch. 577; Eur. oft, ξιφηφόρων ἐς ἀγώνων ἅμιλλαν, Herc. Fur. 812; in sp. Prosa, Hdn. 7, 10, 3.
