Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Doryphorus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DORY'PHORUS (δορυφόρος). A halberdier; the name given to the soldiers who formed the body-guard of the Persian kings, from the weapon they carried; but the word does not occur in Latin, excepting as the name of a celebrated statue by Polycletes (Cic. Brut. 86. Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19. § 2.), representing one of these guards, or of a soldier armed like them.