A.Aus Lydien p.58: poet. νηοκόρος AP9.22 (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.” AP11.324 (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, IG7.3498.25 (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” OGI481.3 (ii A.D.), cf. BMus.Inscr.481*.4 (Ephesus, ii A.D.); δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, OGI496.7 (ii A.D.); of Smyrna, IGRom.4.1419. (Prob. derived from κορέω, sweep, the orig. sense being prob. temple-sweeper, cf. E.Ion115, 121, 795 (where the word does not occur), “νεωκορέω” 1.2, 11, Ph.2.236, Hsch.; but Suid. expl. it ὁ τὸν νεὼν κοσμῶν . . , ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὁ σαίρων.）
