The corpus record — Latin

machaerophorus

machaerophorus · m

a sword-wearer, a satellite

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k

What it meant

măchaerŏphŏrus — Lewis & Short

măchaerŏphŏrus, i, m., = maxairofo/ros,

I a sword-wearer, a satellite: machaerophoris centum sequentibus, i. e. soldiers armed in the Greek manner, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 2.

In the wild

machaerophoris Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.8.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.