- στεφανηφόρος
- στεφᾰνηφόρ-ος (parox.), ον,A wearing a crown or wreath,
θίασοι E.Ba.531
(lyr.); χοροί prob. in B.18.51;ἵπποι Theoc.
16.47; σ. ἀγών,= στεφανίτης, a contest in which the prize was a crown, Hdt.5.102, And.4.2; henceἈλφειέ, Διὸς σ. ὕδωρ AP9.362
;σ. ὧραι Scol.3
;νίκη APl.4.62
.II στεφανηφόρος, ὁ, title of certain magistrates in Greek states who had the right of wearing crowns when in office, as the Archons at Athens,σ. ἀρχή Aeschin.1.19
; compared with the Roman flamen by D.H.2.64, cf. Ath.5.215b, 12.533e; freq. in Inscrr.,Φοίβου σ. ἱρεύς IG14.1020
([place name] Rome), cf. CIG 2671, al. ([place name] Iasus), SIG169.2, al. (ibid., iv B.C.), OGI213.35 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.), al.; and of women, IG12(8).526.7 ([place name] Thasos); ὁ ἄρχων τὴν σ. ἀρχήν ib. 12(5).821.6 (Tenos, ii B.C.);στεφανηφόρος Κλεοπάτρας θεᾶς PRein.10.6
(ii B.C.);σ. ἐξηγητεία PRyl.77.34
(ii A.D.).III δραχμαὶ Στεφανηφόρου, i.e. officially minted, the Athenian mint being attached to a temple of the hero Σ., IG22.1013.31, 1028.30 (ii B.C.), cf. Antipho Frr.36, 44: also δραχμὰς στεφανηφόρους with a wreath on the reverse, JHS54.142 (Delos, ii B.C.).
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