Pherecr.

A form of Pherecrates — A celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. abbreviationbibliographyAbbreviation of Pherecrates.

    πολύτῡρος, ον, with much cheese, Pherecr. Περσ. 1. 7.

    1883, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, edited by Henry Drisler, A Greek–English Lexicon, seventh edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 1251/1, s.v. πολύτῡρος

Translations

French Phérécr.
  • Phérécr.abbreviation of (the equivalent of) Pherecrates
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