σπονδο-φόρος,
ὁ,
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 .