Carpophorus

[ kahr-pof-er-uhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. 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.

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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.

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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.

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He had been a slave of a rich Christian, Carpophorus.

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Only this, if it be so, That Daria He defends, But the poor Carpophorus, no.

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