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Δορυφορεῖ · attends (as a bodyguard) (δ 1402) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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δ1398[of ] one skilled with the spear
δ1399spear-friend
δ1400spear-maker
δ1401of spear-shaking toils
δ1402attends (as a bodyguard)
δ1403spear-carriers
δ1404give
δ1405Dositheos, Dositheus
δ1406legacy

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Δορυφορεῖ

attends (as a bodyguard)

Translated by Catharine Roth6 Feb 2005Vetting: high6 revisions

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2 notes · 9 words

Translation

[Used] with an accusative.¹ [Meaning he/she/it] bestows an honor.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δορυφορεῖ· αἰτιατικῇ. τιμὴν περιποιεῖ.

Betacode

*doruforei=: ai)tiatikh=|. timh\n peripoiei=.

Notes (2)

The headword is present indicative active, third person singular, of the verb dorufore/w, literally 'carry a spear' or 'be a spear-carrier'. (For the noun cognate with this verb see delta 1403.) It must be quoted from somewhere.
1i.e. accusative of the person(s) or thing(s) attended. (According to Adler there are comparable entries in Anecdota Graeca (Oxford) 4.290.32 Cramer and the Lexicon Syntacticum of codex Laurentianus 59.16.) LSJ s.v. cites instances from Herodotus (2.168.2, 3.127.1) and Thucydides (1.130.1) onwards. ↩
2= Synagoge delta351; Photius, Lexicon delta726. Presumably the idea is that attending to someone or something as a bodyguard would attend him/her/it ennobles the person or thing attended. For such (or a similar) figurative sense of doruforei= itself one needs to look as late as the third century CE, and the Orations of Themistius of Constantinople (e.g. 36d4 and 67b3 Harduin); but more generally the usage can be traced back to the fourth century BCE, with Isocrates 10.37 (on Theseus: diete/lese to\n bi/on ... th|= tw=n politw=n eu)noi/a| doruforou/menos).

Linked from1 entry

δ1403Δορυφόροιspear-carriers[Meaning] guards, attendants of a king/emperor, shield-carriers, hypaspists.

Neighbouring entries

δ1400Δορυξόςspear-maker δ1401Δορυσσόντων μόχθωνof spear-shaking toils δ1402Δορυφορεῖattends (as a bodyguard)δ1403Δορυφόροιspear-carriers δ1404Δόςgive

Revision history6 revisions · last 13 Nov 2015

13 Nov 2015expanded notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Sep 2013Revised — William Hutton
11 Sep 2013further tweaks to translation and notes — William Hutton
8 Sep 2013augmented notes — William Hutton
16 Jul 2012another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
6 Feb 2005augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
6 Feb 2005Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δορυφορεῖ (Adler number delta 1402), trans. Catharine Roth, 6 Feb 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1402

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗