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Webster 1913 Edition
Doryphoros
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Do-ryph′o-ros
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], lit., spear bearing; [GREEK] a spear +
φέρειν
to bear.] (Fine Arts)
A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.