ὑδρόφορ-ος(parox.),ον,
A. carrying water,
κόρη
Plu. Them. 31
; ἀγγεῖον
Poll. 8.66
.
II. Subst. ὑ., ὁandἡ,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.;Γ̔δροφόροι,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.