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τιμωρός

τιμωρός, avenging, succouring; upholding honor

τῑμωρ-ός, όν, contr. from τιμάορος (v. sub fin.), which remains as a Dor. form in Pi. O. 9.84 (trisyll.), A. Ag. 514, al., E. Fr. 318.4, IG 14.1389 ii 29 (Rome), etc.; in late Ep. τιμήορος, A.R. 4.709, 1358, 1730: A. Supp. 42 (lyr.) has an acc. τιμάορα, as if from τιμάωρ, ορος, ὁ:—
  • avenging, and as Subst. avenger, τ. τινός any oneʼs avenger, A. Ag. 1280, 1324, 1578, S. El. 811, 1156, etc.: c. dat., τ. τινὶ γενέσθαι Antipho 1.2: c. gen. rei, helping one to vengeance for a thing, πατρὶ τ. φόνου S. El. 14: abs., ἐπεὶ τιμάορος ἕστωρ the founder is the avenger, IG l.c. (cf. Berl.Sitzb. 1928.19): not always of persons, δίκη κακῶν τ. S. Fr. 107.9; ἡ τῶν συγγενῶν αἱμάτων τ. δίκη Pl. Lg. 872e, cf. 716a; χείρ E. Hec. 843; λόγος τ. a plea or argument for vengeance, Hdt. 7.5.
      • 2 executioner, Plb. 2.58.8.
      • 3 τιμωρόν, τό, = κώνειον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.78.
    • II succouring, and as Subst. succourer of one who has been attacked or wronged, Hdt. 2.141, 7.171, Th. 4.2; τὸν ἐμὸν τιμάορον Ἑρμῆν my tutelary god, A. Ag. 514; ἡρῷσσαι, Λιβύης τιμήοροι ἠδὲ θύγατρες A.R. 4.1358; Ἀπόλλωνα . . Ἀνάφης τιμήορον ib. 1730.
      • 2 metaph., ἦλθον τιμάορος Ἰσθμίαισι Λαμπρομάχου μίτραις I have come to pay honour to . ., Pi. l.c. (τιμα-ορος perh. ‘penalty-exactor’, fr. τιμή III and ἄρνυμαι:—for the accentuations τιμάορος: τιμωρός, cf. λυράοιδος: λυρῳδός, on which see Hdn.Gr. 1.229.)

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