Skeuophoros

{{Short description|Slave or servant who carried baggage in ancient Greece}}

A skeuophoros ({{langx|el|Σκευοφόρος}} "Βaggage carrier") was a slave or servant who carried baggage in ancient Greece. Herodotus records that every hoplite was followed on campaign by a servant as a skeuophoros.Herodotus, Histories, 7.40 In Aristophanes' play The Frogs, Xanthias, the slave of Dionysus, acts as his skeuophoros:Aristophanes, Frogs, lines 494-498

{{blockquote|{{lang|grc|Διόνυσος ἴθι νυν ἐπειδὴ ληματίας κἀνδρεῖος εἶ,
σὺ μὲν γενοῦ 'γὼ τὸ ῥόπαλον τουτὶ λαβὼν
καὶ τὴν λεοντῆν, εἴπερ ἀφοβόσπλαγχνος εἶ:
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἔσομαί σοι σκευοφόρος ἐν τῷ μέρει.}}}}