Carpophorus

American  

[kahr-pof-er-uhs] / kɑrˈpɒf ər əs /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”

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Example Sentences

Which of these dark caves is that In whose gloom Carpophorus dwelleth?

From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Yes, Carpophorus must pay For the trouble that this gives me.—

From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Victorius, Carpophorus, Severus, and Severianus, were brothers, and all four employed in places of great trust and honour in the city of Rome.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various

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

From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence