στεφανηφόρος
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
English (LSJ)
(parox.), ον,
A wearing a crown or wreath, θίασοι E.Ba.531 (lyr.); χοροί prob. in B.18.51; ἵπποι Theoc. 16.47; σ. ἀγών,= στεφανίτης, a contest in which the prize was a crown, Hdt.5.102, And.4.2; hence Ἀλφειέ, Διὸς σ. ὕδωρ AP9.362; σ. ὧραι Scol.3; νίκη APl.4.62. II στεφανηφόρος, ὁ, title of certain magistrates in Greek states who had the right of wearing crowns when in office, as the Archons at Athens, σ. ἀρχή Aeschin.1.19; compared with the Roman flamen by D.H.2.64, cf. Ath.5.215b, 12.533e; freq. in Inscrr., Φοίβου σ. ἱρεύς IG14.1020 (Rome), cf. CIG 2671, al. (Iasus), SIG169.2, al. (ibid., iv B.C.), OGI213.35 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.), al.; and of women, IG12(8).526.7 (Thasos); ὁ ἄρχων τὴν σ. ἀρχήν ib. 12(5).821.6 (Tenos, ii B.C.); στεφανηφόρος Κλεοπάτρας θεᾶς PRein.10.6 (ii B.C.); σ. ἐξηγητεία PRyl.77.34 (ii A.D.). III δραχμαὶ Στεφανηφόρου, i.e. officially minted, the Athenian mint being attached to a temple of the hero Σ., IG22.1013.31, 1028.30 (ii B.C.), cf. Antipho Frr.36, 44: also δραχμὰς στεφανηφόρους with a wreath on the reverse, JHS54.142 (Delos, ii B.C.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 939] einen Kranz tragend; θίασοι, Eur. Bacch. 521; ἀγών, in welchem der Sieger einen Kranz davonträgt, Her. 5, 102, wie Andoc. 4, 2; ἦρος, Anacr. 53, 1, a. sp. D.; – ἀρχὴ στ., von den neun Archonten, Aesch. 1, 19. – Eine obrigkeitliche Person in den griechischen Städten, mit dem röm. flamen verglichen von D. Hal. 2, 74.
