ὑδροφόρος

English (LSJ)

(parox.), ον,

   A carrying water, κόρη Plu. Them.31; ἀγγεῖον Poll.8.66.    II Subst. ὑ., ὁ and ἡ, watercarrier, Hdt.3.14, X.An.4.5.10, PCair.Zen.702.24 (iii B. C.), LXX Jo. 9.33(27), Luc.Vit.Auct.7, etc.; Γδροφόροι, title of Tragedies by Aeschylus and by Sophocles; ὑ. Ἀρτέμιδος Πυθίης, title of priestess at Branchidae, OGI226.1 (iii B. C.); so in pl., CIG2885, BMus.Inscr. 922.9; also at Athens, of maidens who served at the Dipolieia, Thphr. ap. Porph.Abst.2.30; cf. ὑδροφορέω 11.    III ὑδροφόρους· ὑδρορρόους, Hsch.