ὑδρόφορος

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, OGI 226.1 (iii B. C.); so in pl., CIG 2885, 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.