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Carpophorus
[kahr-pof-er-uhs]
noun
an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”
Example Sentences
Victorius, Carpophorus, Severus, and Severianus, were brothers, and all four employed in places of great trust and honour in the city of Rome.
When Carpophorus, by whom he was now suspected of embezzlement, determined to call him to account, Callistus fled to Portus—in the hope of escaping by sea to some other country.
Carpophorus bailed him out of the workhouse,—but he was a bad fellow, got into a riot in a Jewish synagogue, and was sent to work in the Sardinian mines.
He had been a slave of a rich Christian, Carpophorus.
Only this, if it be so, That Daria He defends, But the poor Carpophorus, no.
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