A.carrying a basket: Κανηφόροι, αἱ, at Athens, title of maidens who carried baskets in procession at festivals, Ar.Ach.242 (sg.), al. (cf. Sch. ad loc.), Hermipp.26, IG22.896.9 (sg.); represented in works of art, Cic.Verr.4.3.5, Plin.HN36.25; elsewh., as title of priestess, “κ. θεᾶς Ἀρτέμιδος” CIG4362 (Pisid.); “κ. Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου” PCair.Zen.3 (iii B.C.), PTeb.176 (iii/ii B.C.), cf. PStrassb.83.10 (ii B.C.), etc.
κα^νήφορ-ος (parox.), ον,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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