Δορός

of a spear

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[Genitive, equivalent to] do/ratos.¹
"Perhaps, even if they do not desire him while he is alive, they would lament him dead when they are in need of a spear."² Tekmessa, the wife of Ajax, says [this] about Agamemnon.

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Δορός· δόρατος. ἴσως τοι, κεἰ βλέποντα μὴ 'πόθουν, θανόντ' ἂν οἰμώξειαν ἐν χρείᾳ δορός. Τέκμησσά φησι, γυνὴ Αἴαντος περὶ Ἀγαμέμνονος.

Δορός · of a spear (δ 1389) · Suda

*doro/s: do/ratos. i)/sws toi, kei) ble/ponta mh\ 'po/qoun, qano/nt' a)\n oi)mw/ceian e)n xrei/a| doro/s. *te/kmhssa/ fhsi, gunh\ *ai)/antos peri\ *)agame/mnonos.

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