Ἐγχυτρίστριαι

[Meaning] those who bring the drink-offerings to the dead. Minos or On Law [uses the word]. They also used to call doing harm "putting into an urn" [kataxutri/sai], as Aristophanes [illustrates].¹ *)egxutri/striai is also what they called those [women] who purify the unclean by pouring over them the blood of a sacrifice, and those who sing the dirges; also the midwives who expose infants in urns.²