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δορυφόροις (doryphorois)

δορυφόροις is an Ancient Greek form of δορυφόρος, meaning “spearman, bodyguard”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of δορύφορος, “spearman, bodyguard”.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 8.1: … καὶ βίας παρὰ τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐν τούτῳ σκιάς τινας ὁρᾶσθαι καὶ μιμήματα, τῶν μὲν ἄλλων βασιλέων ἔν πορφύραις καὶ δορυφόροις καὶ κλίσει τραχήλου καὶ τῷ μεῖζον διαλέγεσθαι, μόνου δὲ Πύρρου τοῖς ὅπλοις καὶ ταῖς χερσὶν ἐπιδεικνυμένου τὸν …

All forms of δορυφόρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.