LOGOI

The corpus record

ζωοφόρ-ος

zoophoros

life-giving

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What it meant — LSJ

life-giving

life-giving, IG 3.171; ἄνεμοι AP 9.765 (Paul.Sil.).

II bearing animals

ζῳοφόρος, ον, bearing animals: and so,

1 bearing the figures of animals, sculptured, frieze

bearing the figures of animals, sculptured, πίνακες D.S. 18.26; Lat. zophorus, as Subst., frieze, Vitr. 3.5.10.

2

ὁ ζ. κύκλος,= ὁ ζῳδιακός, Arist. Mu. 392a11, Corp.Herm. 13.12, etc.; without κύκλος, Ph. 2.153, AP 14.124; σφαῖρα ἡ ζ. (ζωηφ- cod.) Ph. 2.294.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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