The corpus record

δᾳδοῦχ-ος

dadouchos · ὁ

torch-bearer

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

torch-bearer

torch-bearer, App. BC 2.17: but usu. of the holder of a hereditary office at the mysteries of the Eleusinian Demeter, X. HG 6.3.3, Arist. Rh. 1405a20, IG 1(2).76.25, SIG 2587.305; δ. Κόρης IG 3.172.9.

metaph., δᾳδοῦχοι τῆς σοφίας Plu. Lib.educ. 2.10e.

of the Sun, Cleanth.Stoic. 1.123.

II torch-stand, candelabrum

torch-stand, candelabrum, CIG 4647 (Bostra): also in Lacon. form δᾳδῶχορ, Hsch.

In the wild

δᾳδοῦχον · daidouchon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
δᾳδοῦχον · daidouchon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
δᾳδοῦχος · daidouchos Epictetus, Discourses 3.21 (DIORISIS sentence 4783)
δᾳδοῦχον · daidouchon Epictetus, Discourses 3.21 (DIORISIS sentence 4784)
δᾳδοῦχος · daidouchos Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2657)

Where it came from

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