νεωκόρος

νεωκόρος, ὁ, Dor. νᾱοκόρος GDI 2116.14, al. (Delph., ii B.C.), Hsch.: contr. νᾱκόρος PMagd. 35.7 (iii B.C., prob. Dor.), GDI 1912.9, al. (Delph., ii B.C.), 5087 (Crete): as fem., IG 42(1).393, al. (Epid., ii A.D.); ναυκόρος, ἡ, Buresch Aus Lydien p.58: poet. νηοκόρος AP 9.22 (Phil.):—A. 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 B.C.); βωμοῖο ν. AP 11.324 (Autom.); ν. τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος POxy. 100.2 (ii A.D.). 2. sacristan, Herod. 4.41,45, Paus. 10.12.5; ἐνβόλιον ἔχων ν. in a list of silver articles, IG 7.3498.25 (Oropus). II. 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 A.D.), cf. BMus.Inscr. 481*.4 (Ephesus, ii A.D.); δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, OGI 496.7 (ii A.D.); 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, ΙΙ, Ph. 2.236, Hsch.; but Suid. expl. it ὁ τὸν νεὼν κοσμῶν . . , ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὁ σαίρων.)