• the very first phoros ("that which is brought") was assessed by Aristeides a couple of years after the battle of Salamis. The phoros became a source...
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    443/2 BC. After 438 BC, the Carian phoros became part of the Ionian district and after c. 425 BC a new Aktaios phoros, comprising the coastal Troad, was...
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    signalling'; from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma) 'mark, sign, token' and Greek -φόρος (-phóros) 'bearer, carrier') is the use of an apparatus to create a visual signal...
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    The word is derived from Ancient Greek χρῶμᾰ (chroma) 'color' and -φόρος (phoros) 'carrier of'. Many molecules in nature are chromophores, including chlorophyll...
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    Decree was a new mandate for the Delian League and for the collection of "phoros" (taxes). Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all...
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    is derived from the Greek words ριζα (rhiza), meaning "root," and φορος (phoros), meaning "bearing," referring to the stilt-roots. The beetle Poecilips...
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    see Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus) Lewis & Short. A Latin Dictionary. Phŏrō-nis, ĭdis, f. adj., Phoronean, poet. for Argive [...] Subst.: Phorōnis,...
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    Ancient Greek knēmido- (combining form of knēmis, "greave", a leg armor) and -phoros ("bearer"). In some of the Cnemidophorus species, there are no males, and...
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    and Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law; φόρος, phoros: bringer, bearer), "giver of customs" or "legislator", in association with...
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    Ancient Greek word φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and the Greek suffix -φόρος (-phoros), meaning "to bear", combined with the Latin suffix -escentem, meaning "becoming...
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