ὑδροφόρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(parox.), ον, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[carrying water]], κόρη <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Them.</span>31</span>; ἀγγεῖον <span class="bibl">Poll.8.66</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Subst. [[ὑδροφόρος]], ὁ and ἡ, [[water carrier]], [[water]] [[seller]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.14</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>4.5.10</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>702.24</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Jo.</span> 9.33(27)</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Vit.Auct.</span>7</span>, etc.; [[Ὑδροφόροι]], title of tragedies by [[Aeschylus]] and by [[Sophocles]]; <b class="b3">ὑδροφόρος Ἀρτέμιδος Πυθίης</b>, title of [[priestess]] at [[Branchidae]], <span class="title">OGI</span>226.1 (iii B. C.); so in plural, <span class="title">CIG</span>2885, <span class="title">BMus.Inscr.</span> 922.9; also at Athens, of maidens who served at the [[Dipolieia]], Thphr. ap. <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>2.30</span>; cf. [[ὑδροφορέω]] ''ΙΙ''. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[ὑδροφόρους]]· [[ὑδρορρόους]], Hsch.</span>