ἘΦΟΡΟΣ, ἐφορος
EPHOROS, ephoros
Sounds Like: EH-fo-ros
Translations: Ephorus
From the root: ἘΦΟΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Ephorus was an ancient Greek historian from Cyme, Aeolis, who lived in the 4th century BC. He was a student of Isocrates and wrote a universal history in 30 books, covering the period from the return of the Heracleidae to the siege of Perinthus (340 BC). His work is now lost, but it was widely used by later historians.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:108
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΦΟΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΦΟΡΟΝ — overseer, a guardian, a superintendent, a ruler, a supervisor, a watcher, a protector
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