διοπτ-ήρ · diopt-ēr — LSJ
spy, scout
spy, scout, στρατοῦ Il. 10.562: in late Prose, Agath. 2.2.
II
διάγγελοι καὶ διοπτῆρες, the optiones and tesserarii of the Romans, Plu. Galb. 24.
III
= διόπτρα III, Aët. 16.105.
The corpus record
διοπτήρ
diopter · ὁ
spy, scout
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Where it lives
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- διοπτῆρα · dioptēra Iliad 10.562
Where it came from
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