πυρφόρ-ος
(paroxytone), ον, fire-bearing, especially of lightning, π. κεραυνός [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.71, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 444, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1658; ἀστραπαί [prev. author] “OT” 200 (Lyric poetry); Διὸς ἔγχος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1749 (Lyric poetry); πυρφόρος αἰθέρος ἀστήρ [prev. author] “Th.” 1050 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b π. οἰστοί arrows with combustibles tied to them, so that they may set fire to woodwork, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.21.3; τοῖς μὲν π... τοῖς δ᾽ ἄλλοις βέλεσι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.96; οἱ π. [prev. passage]; πυρφόρα, τά, [prev. work] 88 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πυρφόρος, ὁ, engine for throwing fire, fire-dart, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.7.1 (uncertain), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.62d. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II in special senses,
__II.1 epithet of several divinities, as of Zeus in reference to his lightnings, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1198 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Demeter, probably in reference to the torches used by her worshippers, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 260 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; similarly π. θεαί of Demeter and Persephone, [[ “IG” 4.666.9 (from Lerna), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 687 (Lyric poetry); π. Ἀρτέμιδος αἴγλας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 206 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Προμηθεὺς π. the Fire-bringer, title of a satyric play of [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 55 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of Capaneus, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 432, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 135 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Eros, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.87 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but, θεὸς π. the fire-bearing god, the god who produces plague or fever, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]