Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Neocorus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

NEO'CORUS (νεωκόρος). A Greek term, corresponding to the Latin aedituus; a verger who has the charge of a temple, and the objects contained in it; and whose duty it was to attend to the sweeping and cleaning of the same. Hence the inhabitants of the Greek towns often styled themselves the neocori of their patron divinity; and in later times, as a piece of refined flattery, of the Roman emperor; thereby intending to express devotion and piety towards the sovereign and at the same time insinuate his divinity. Firm. Math. 3. 7. n. 9. Inscriptions on coins and medals.