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"></b>[[sacristan]], Herod. 4.41, 45, Paus. 10.12.5; [[ἐνβόλιον]] [[ἔχων]] ν. in a list of silver articles, IG 7.3498.25 (Oropus). 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. [[Ἀρτέμιδος]] Act. Ap. 19.35; also as ''Adj.'', τῷ ν. [[Ἐφεσίων]] [[δήμῳ]] OGI 481.3 (ii AD), cf. ''BMus.Inscr.'' 481&#42;. 4 (Ephesus, ii AD); δὶς ν. τῶν [[Σεβαστῶν]], of Ephesus, OGI 496.7 (ii AD); of Smyrna, IGRom. 4.1419. (Prob. derived from [[κορέω]], [[sweep]], the orig. sense being prob. [[temple-sweeper]], cf. E. ''Ion'' 115, 121, 795 (where the word does not occur), [[νεωκορέω]] I. 2, II, Ph. 2.236, Hsch.; but Suid. expl. it ὁ τὸν νεὼν [[κοσμῶν]]…, ἀλλ' [[οὐχ]] ὁ [[σαίρων]].)