ὑδροφόρος
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
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.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1174] Wasser tragend; ὁ ὑδροφόρος, der Wasserträger, Her. 3, 14; Luc. vit. auct. 7; ἡ ὑδροφόρος, die Wasserträgerinn, Xen. An. 4, 5, 10; Folgende.
