So that passers-by could drink

His father, a noble of old and a good man, had built a large water tank and fitted a tap outside his house, so that passers-by could drink and neighbours could fill their pitchers at it, and he had named it the Idomeneus fountain, after his son. He had also made a window in the outer wall and put the large house clock opposite it, so that people going by could see what time it was."

N. Kazantzakis, Kapetan Michalis, Athens 1974