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Headword:
*loutrofo/ros
Adler number: lambda,694
Translated headword: bath-carrier
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Bath-carrier] and bath-carrying. It was customary for those getting married at
Athens to send out for baths for themselves on the day of the wedding. They used to send for these the boy who was their nearest male relative; and these did the the bath-carrying. It was also customary, when people died unmarried, to have a bath-carrier and position him at the tomb; this was a boy with a hydria. They used to carry the bath[-water] from the spring now called Enneakrounos, formerly
Kallirhoe.[1]
*loutrofo/ros kai\ *loutroforei=n: e)/qos h)=n toi=s gamou=sin *)aqh/nhsi loutra\ metape/mpesqai e(autoi=s kata\ th\n tou= ga/mou h(me/ran. e)/pempon de\ e)pi\ tau=ta to\n e)gguta/tw ge/nous pai=da a)/rrena: kai\ ou(=toi e)loutrofo/roun. e)/qos de\ h)=n kai\ toi=s a)ga/mois a)poqanou=si loutroforei=n kai\ e)pi\ to\ mnh=ma e)fi/stasqai: tou=to de\ h)=n pai=s u(dri/an e)/xwn. ta\ de\ loutra\ e)ko/mizon e)k th=s nu=n me\n *)enneako/rou kaloume/nhs krh/nhs, pro/teron de\ *kalliro/hs.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on
Dinarchus frs. XIX.6 and LXXXIII.1 Conomis. Note that
loutrofo/ros was the name for not only the person performing the ritual but also the particular vessel used.
cf. generally
lambda 692,
lambda 693.
[1] For Enneakrounos (here misspelled Enneakoros)/
Kallirhoe see
epsilon 1209 and
kappa 238.
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1990) 220
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2000@03:17:04.
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