φώρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, gen. φωρός, dat. pl.<br><span class="bld">A</span> φωρσί Ael.NA9.45:—[[thief]], Hdt.2.174, etc.; φώρ τινος Pl.R.334a; Ἀργεῖοι φῶρες Ar.Fr.57; φ. ἄνθρωποι Paus.10.15.5; [[ἔγνω δὲ φώρ τε φῶρα καὶ λύκος λύκον]] = and [[thief]] knows thief and [[wolf]] his fellow wolf / 'set a thief to catch a thief' [[proverb|prov.]] in Arist. EE1235a9; [[τὰ τῶν φωρῶν κρείττω]] = the [[lot]] of a [[thief]] is [[better]] [[proverb|prov.]] in Hyp.Fr.1: Sup. [[φώρτατος]] = [[most]] [[thievish]], Sophr.1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[bee]], prob. [[robber-bee]], Arist.HA553b9, 625a5.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[φωρῶν λιμήν]], a [[harbour]] near [[Athens]], a little [[westward]] of the [[Piraeus]], used by [[smuggler]]s, D.35.28,53, Str.9.1.14. (Like Lat. [[fur]], from bher- (root of [[φέρω]]), cf. [[ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν]].)