LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun

pastŏphŏri

Meaning

  1. a kind of priests who carried about the images of their deities in a little shrine for the purpose of collecting alms

pastŏphŏri, ōrum, m., = παστοφόροι,
I. a kind of priests who carried about the images of their deities in a little shrine for the purpose of collecting alms, App. M. 11, p. 265, 15; Inscr. Maff. Mus. Ver. 230.

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesPastophoriPastophori were Egyptian priests, so called because they carried in processions small shrines (παστοὺ) of their deity. They formed an inferior order o…

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What does pastŏphŏri mean in Latin?
pastŏphŏri, a noun, means “a kind of priests who carried about the images of their deities in a little shrine for the purpose of collecting alms”.