νεωκόρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, Doric [[ναοκόρος]] GDI 2116.14, al. (Delph., ii BC), Hsch.; ''contr.'' [[νακόρος]] PMagd. 35.7 (iii BC, prob. Doric), GDI 1912.9, al. (Delph., ii BC), 5087 (Crete); as fem., IG4²(1).393, al. (Epid., ii AD); [[ναυκόρος]], ἡ, Buresch ''Aus Lydien'' p. 58; poet. [[νηοκόρος]] ''AP'' 9.22 (Phil.): — [[warden of a temple]], as a sacred officer, τοῖς [[ἱεροῖς]] ν. [[γίγνεσθαι]] Pl. ''Lg.'' 759a; [[ἱερέας]] τε καὶ ν. ''ib.'' 953a; παρὰ Μεγαβύξῳ τῷ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ν. X. ''An.'' 5.3.6, cf. ''Inscr.Prien.'' 231 (iv BC); [[βωμοῖο]] ν. ''AP'' 11.324 (Autom.); ν. τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος POxy. 100.2 (ii AD).<br><b class="num">2.</b> [[sacristan]], Herod. 4.41, 45, Paus. 10.12.5; [[ἐνβόλιον]] [[ἔχων]] ν. in a list of silver articles, IG 7.3498.25 (Oropus).<br><b class="num">II.</b> title assumed by Asiatic cities in Imperial times, when they had built a [[temple]] in [[honour]] of their patron-god or the Emperor, as [[Ephesus]], ν. Act.Ap.19.35; also as Adj., τῷ ν. Ἐφεσίων δήμῳ OGI481.3 (ii a.d.), cf. BMus.Inscr.481*.4 (Ephesus, ii a.d.); δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, OGI496.7 (ii a.d.); of Smyrna, IGRom.4.1419. (Prob. derived from [[κορέω]], [[sweep]], the orig. sense being prob. [[temple-sweeper]], cf. E.Ion115, 121, 795 (where the word does not occur), [[νεωκορέω]] i. 2, 11, Ph.2.236, Hsch.; but Suid. expl. it ὁ τὸν νεὼν κοσμῶν .., ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὁ σαίρων.), νεωκόρος [[βουλή]] SEG33.1123 (Phrygia).