νεωκόρος

νεωκόρ-ος, 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.):—

• 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.)

νεωκόρος, den Tempel fegend, reinigend, subst. der Tempelwärter, Tempelaufseher, aedituus ; neben ἱερεύς, Plat. Legg. XII.953a ; νεωκόρους γίγνεσθαι τοῖς θεοῖς, VI.759b ; ὁ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ν., Xen. An. 5.3.6.
Bei Sp. ist es ein Ehrentitel, den ganze Städte annehmen, bes. in Asien auf Münzen, wenn sie dem Kaiser bei sich einen Tempel errichtet hatten.

νεωκόρος νεω-κόρος, ὁ,

• • Ithe custodian of a temple, Lat. aedituus, Plat., Xen.
  • IIa title of Asiatic towns, which had built a temple in honour of their patron-god, as Ephesus was, ν. Ἀρτέμιδος NTest. deriv. uncertain