The corpus record — Latin

Zōpўrus

Zōpўrus · m

A celebrated physiognomist

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What it meant

Zōpўrus — Lewis & Short

Zōpўrus, i, m., = *zw/puros.

I A celebrated physiognomist, Cic. Fat. 5, 10; id. Tusc. 4, 37, 80.—

II A Persian noble, who mutilated himself and thereby helped to conquer Babylon, Just. 1, 10, 15.—

III A rhetorician, Quint. 3, 6, 3.—Hence, perh.,

1 Zōpўrion, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 210, 28.—

2 Zōpўriātim, adv., in the manner of Zopyrus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 455, 17.

Where it came from

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