τελεσφορ-έω,
bring fruit to perfection, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.7.6, NT.Luke.8.14 ] NT+4th c.BC+]:—passive, τελεσφορουμένων καρπῶν [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.36. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 of young women, bear perfect offspring, [[ 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.16 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τ. καὶ μὴ ἀποβάλλειν τὸ ἔμβρυον [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 2.97] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, of the offspring, [[ 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 34, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.41, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.220c. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 generally, bring to a head, ἔαρ ἐς κορυφὴν τ. [νοῦσον] [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.16, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.31 ] Refs 1st c.BC+] O.:—passive, to be brought to perfection, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 14.3. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II pay toll or custom, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 3.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III to be a τελεσφόφος[[ (111.2), “GDI” 4837 (from Cyrene), in form -φορέντες,compare “Africa Italiana” 2.130, 153 ([prev. passage]). ] Refs]