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σωματοφυλάκων (somatophylakon)

σωματοφυλάκων is an Ancient Greek form of σωματοφύλαξ, meaning “bodyguard; protecting the body”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 51.4: τῶν δὲ σωματοφυλάκων ἑνὸς Ἀριστοφάνους φθάσαντος ὑφελέσθαι, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων περιεχόντων καὶ δεομένων, ἀναπηδήσας ἀνεβόα Μακεδονιστὶ …

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.