The corpus record

νῑκηφόρ-ος

nikephoros

bringing victory

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Where it lives

Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νῑκηφόρ-ος · nikēphor-os — LSJ

bringing victory

bringing victory, δίκη A. Ch. 148.

II bearing off the prize, victorious, of victory

(φέρομαι) bearing off the prize, victorious, Pi. O. 1.116; ν. ἀγλαΐα the glory of victory, ib. 13.14; πρᾶγμα ν. A. Eu. 477; κράτος S. Tr. 186; δίκη E. Ph. 781; ἄγρα Id. Ba. 1200; θεὸς or θεοὶ ν., applied to the Ptolemies, OGI 89.3 (iii B.C.), PTeb. 43.28 (ii B.C.); epith. of Athena, Eros, etc., SIG 629.6 (Pergam., ii B.C.), IG ΙΙ(4).1304 (Delos, ii B.C.), etc.: c. gen., X. Mem. 3.4.5.

In the wild

νικηφόρου · nikēphorou Aeschylus, Eumenides 476–479
νικηφόρον · nikēphoron Aeschylus, Eumenides 776–777
νικηφόρῳ · nikēphorōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 147–148
νικηφόρον · nikēphoron Euripides, Bacchae 1200–1201
νικηφόρου · nikēphorou Euripides, Electra 870 (DIORISIS sentence 554)
νικηφόρου · nikēphorou Euripides, Electra 880 (DIORISIS sentence 559)

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Where it came from

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