Κερωφόρος
horn-bearing, horned
Translated by Nick Nicholas8 Nov 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[no gloss]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κερωφόρος.
Betacode
*kerwfo/ros.
Notes
- The unglossed headword
kerwfo/ros , confined to lexica and grammars, is a variant ofkerofo/ros (LSJ s.v.kerofo/ros , Trapp s.v.kerofo/ros ,kerwfo/ros ).
The adjectivekerofo/ros appears in Euripides, Bacchae 691 (genitive plural: "when she heard the lowing of the horned cattle" -- web address 1), and in the scholia on Theocritus, Idylls 5.145a. See also ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 206 (where the spelling with omega is prescribed) as well as the Laurentian and Ambrosian lexica.