νεώκορ-ος, ὁ,
Doric dialect νᾱοκόρος [[ “GDI” 2116.14, +others (Delph., 2nd c.BC), 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: contraction νᾱκόρος [[ “PMagd.” 35.7 (3rd c.BC, probably _Doric dialect_), “GDI” 1912.9, +others (Delph., 2nd c.BC), 5087 (from Crete)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: as feminine, [[ “IG” 42(1).393, +others (Epid., 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ναυκόρος, ἡ, Buresch Aus Lydien p.58: poetry νηοκόρος [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.22 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—warden of a temple, as a sacred officer, τοῖς ἱεροῖς ν. γίγνεσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 759a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱερέας τε καὶ ν.[[ [prev. work] 953a; παρὰ Μεγαβύξῳ τῷ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.6, compare “Inscription Prien.” 231 (4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βωμοῖο ν. [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 11.324 (1st c.AD: Automedon Epigrammaticus); ν. τοῦ μεγάλου Σαράπιδος “POxy.” 100.2 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 sacristan, [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.41, 45, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.12.5 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐνβόλιον ἔχων ν. in a list of silver articles, [[ “IG” 7.3498.25 (from Oropus). ] Refs]
__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 [[ NT.Act.19.35 ] NT]; also as adjective, τῷ ν. Ἐφεσίων δήμῳ [[ “OGI” 481.3 (2nd c.AD),compare “BMus.Inscription” 481*.4 (Ephesus, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, [[ “OGI” 496.7 (2nd c.AD) ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of Smyrna, [[ “IGRom.” 4.1419. (Prob. derived from κορέω,] Refs] sweep, the originally sense being probably temple-sweeper,[[compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 115, 121, 795 (where the word does not occur), νεωκορέω 1.2, 11, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.236, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; but 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus explanation it ὁ τὸν νεὼν κοσμῶν.., ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὁ σαίρων.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]