The corpus record

θεσμο-φόρος

thesmophoros

law-giving

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Where it lives

Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

θεσμο-φόρος · thesmo-phoros — LSJ

law-giving

law-giving, epith. of Demeter, Hdt. 6.91, 134, IPE 2.13 (Panticapaeum, iv B.C.), Call. Aet. Oxy. 2079.10 [Fr. 1.10 Pf.], D.S. 1.14, etc.; σεμνὴ Θ. AP 5.149 (Asclep.), cf. Luc. Tim. 17; τὼ Θεσμοφόρω Demeter and Persephone, Ar. Th. 83, al.; αἱ Θεσμοφόροι App. BC 2.70, Plu. Dio 56, etc.; πότνια Θ., of Persephone, Pi. Fr. 37; also, as a title of Dionysus, Orph. H. 42.1.

In the wild

θεσμοφόρων · thesmophorōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 7985)
θεσμοφόρου · thesmophorou Herodotus, Histories 6.134.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6974)
θεσμοφόρου · thesmophorou Herodotus, Histories 6.91.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6731)

Where it came from

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