The corpus record

μᾰχαιρο-φόρος

machairophoros

wearing a sabre

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wearing a sabre, swordsman, police

wearing a sabre, of Egyptians, Hdt. 9.32; μ. ἔθνος, of Persians, A. Pers. 56 (anap.); of Thracians, Th. 2.96, 7.27:— as Subst., swordsman, Plb. 38.7.2, Plu. Sull. 8, etc.; freq. of military police in Egypt, PAmh. 2.38 (ii B.C.), PTeb. 35.13 (ii B.C.), OGI 737.6 (ii B. C.), Sammelb. 46, Ostr.Bodl. iii 64, etc.

In the wild

μαχαιροφόρον · machairophoron Aeschylus, Persians 56–58
μαχαιροφόροι · machairophoroi Herodotus, Histories 9.32.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9556)
μαχαιροφόρων · machairophorōn Thucydides, History 2.96.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1676)
μαχαιροφόροι · machairophoroi Thucydides, History 2.98.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1705)
μαχαιροφόρων · machairophorōn Thucydides, History 7.27.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4928)
μαχαιροφόρους · machairophorous Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1420)

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Where it came from

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