σπονδοφόρος

A. one who offers libations, Ph. 1.683:—hence, one who brings proposals for a truce or treaty of peace, Ar. Ach. 216.

II. herald or officer who published the σπονδαί of the Olympic and other games, σπονδοφόροι Ζηνὸς Ἀλεῖοι Pi. I. 2.23; οἱ ς. οἱ τὰς μυστηριώτιδας σπονδὰς ἐπαγγέλλοντες Aeschin. 2.133, cf. SIG 1021.7 (Olympia, i B.C.), al.

2. = Lat. fetialis, D.H. 1.21, Plu. 2.279b.