ὑδροφόρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(parox.), ον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[carrying water]], κόρη Plu. ''Them.''31; ἀγγεῖον Poll.8.66.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Subst. [[ὑδροφόρος]], ὁ and ἡ, [[water carrier]], [[water]] [[seller]], [[Herodotus|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.; [[Ὑδροφόροι]], title of tragedies by [[Aeschylus]] and by [[Sophocles]]; <b class="b3">ὑδροφόρος Ἀρτέμιδος Πυθίης</b>, title of [[priestess]] at [[Branchidae]], ''OGI''226.1 (iii B. C.); so in plural, ''CIG''2885, ''BMus.Inscr.'' 922.9; also at Athens, of maidens who served at the [[Dipolieia]], [[Theophrastus]] ap. Porph.''Abst.''2.30; cf. [[ὑδροφορέω]] ''ΙΙ''.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[ὑδροφόρους]]· [[ὑδρορρόους]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]