Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

λουτροχόος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λουτροχόος λουτροχόον

Structure: λουτροχο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. pouring water into the bath, the slave who did this, in which water was warmed for bathing

Examples

  • παρ’ οἷσ πρώτοισ εἰσήχθησαν εἰσ τὰ βαλανεῖα λουτροχόοι καὶ παραχύται πεπεδημένοι, τοῦ μὴ θᾶττον ἰέναι καὶ ὅπωσ μὴ σπεύδοντεσ κατακαίωσι τοὺσ λουομένουσ, πρῶτοι δὲ Συβαρῖται καὶ τὰσ ποιούσασ ψόφον τέχνασ οὐκ ἐῶσιν ἐπιδημεῖν τῇ πόλει,4 οἱο͂ν χαλκέων καὶ τεκτόνων καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων, ὅπωσ αὐτοῖσ πανταχόθεν ἀθόρυβοι ὦσιν οἱ ὕπνοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 153)
  • νῦν δὲ τούσ τε θυρωροὺσ καὶ τοὺσ σιτοποιοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ὀψοποιοὺσ καὶ οἰνοχόουσ καὶ λουτροχόουσ καὶ παρατιθέντασ καὶ ἀναιροῦντασ καὶ κατακοιμίζοντασ καὶ ἀνιστάντασ, καὶ τοὺσ κοσμητάσ, οἳ ὑποχρίουσί τε καὶ ἐντρίβουσιν αὐτοὺσ καὶ τἆλλα ῥυθμίζουσι, τούτουσ πάντασ ἱππέασ οἱ δυνάσται πεποιήκασιν, ὅπωσ μισθοφορῶσιν αὐτοῖσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 29:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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