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LNS

Zōpyrus, Zōpyrī

Zopyrus

Ζώπυρος

noun (m., 3^rd Greek declension)

A celebrated physiognomist
A Persian noble, who mutilated himself and thereby helped to conquer Babylon
A rhetorician
in the manner of Zopyrus

Abbreviations

Zōpyrus, i, m., = Ζώπυρος. A celebrated physiognomist, Cic. Fat. 5, 10; id. Tusc. 4, 37, 80.

— A Persian noble, who mutilated himself and thereby helped to conquer Babylon, Just. 1, 10, 15.

— A rhetorician, Quint. 3, 6, 3.

—Hence, perh., Zōpyrion, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 210, 28.

— Zōpyriātim, adv., in the manner of Zopyrus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 455, 17.