τιμάορος

A. avenging, and as Subst. avenger, τ. τινός any one's avenger, A. Ag. 1280, 1324, 1578, S. El. 811, 1156, etc.: c. dat., τ. τινὶ γενέσθαι Antipho 1.2: c. gen. rei, helping one to vengeance for a thing, πατρὶ τ. φόνου S. El. 14: abs., ἐπεὶ τιμάορος ἕστωρ the founder is the avenger, IG l.c. (cf. Berl.Sitzb. 1928.19): not always of persons, δίκη κακῶν τ. S. Fr. 107.9; ἡ τῶν συγγενῶν αἱμάτων τ. δίκη Pl. Lg. 872e, cf. 716a; χείρ E. Hec. 843; λόγος τ. a plea or argument for vengeance, Hdt. 7.5.

2. executioner, Plb. 2.58.8.

3. τιμωρόν,τό, = κώνειον, Ps.-Dsc. 4.78.

II. succouring, and as Subst. succourer of one who has been attacked or wronged, Hdt. 2.141, 7.171, Th. 4.2; τὸν ἐμὸν τιμάορον Ἑρμῆν my tutelary god, A. Ag. 514; ἡρῷσσαι, Λιβύης τιμήοροι ἠδὲ θύγατρες A.R. 4.1358; Ἀπόλλωνα . . Ἀνάφης τιμήορον ib.1730.

2. metaph., ἦλθον τιμάορος Ἰσθμίαισι Λαμπρομάχου μίτραις I have come to pay honour to . ., Pi.l.c. (τιμα‐ορος perh. 'penalty-exactor', fr. τιμή 111 and ἄρνυμαι:—for the accentuations τιμάορος: τιμωρός, cf. λυράοιδος: λυρῳδός, on which see Hdn.Gr.1.229.)