σῑτοποι-ός, ον, ἀνάγκη σ.
the task of grinding and baking, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 362. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II substantive, one that ground the corn in the hand-mill, miller. σ. ἐκ τῶν μυλώνων [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.22; Λαμέδοντι σιτοποιῷ “PCair.Zen.” 4.41 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπίστειλον.. πόθεν δεῖ λαβόντα σῖτον καὶ πόσον δοῦναι Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ σ. ὅπως ἑτοιμασθῇ σεμίδαλις [[ “PMich.Zen.” 28.32 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἔργον σιτοποιοῦ bake-meats, [[ LXX.Gen.40.17 ] LXX]; mostly feminine, baking-woman, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.150, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γυναῖκες σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.187, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.78 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ὀψοποιός (a cook), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to μάγειρος, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 23 (_plural_), compare “Ostr.Bodl.” i 304 (_plural_, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]