Nicephorus
Νικηφόρος
(Νικηφόρος), i. e. bringing victory, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Aphrodite. (Paus. 2.19.6.) [L.S]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.