noun
hēmĕrŏdrŏmus
Meaning
- a courier
hēmĕrŏdrŏmus, i, m., = ἡμεροδρόμος (who runs the day through),
I. a courier (pure Lat. cursor, Plin. 2, 71, 73, § 181):
nisi speculator (hemerodromos vocant Graeci) ingens die uno cursu emetiens spatium, etc., Liv. 31, 24, 4.—In plur.: hemerodromœ, Nep. Milt. 4, 3.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hēmerodromus ī, m
, ἡμεροδρόμος (all-day runner), a courier, L.—Plur: hemerodromoe, N.