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ἔμμισθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμμισθος ἔμμισθον

Structure: ἐμμισθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n

Sense

  1. in pay, in receipt of pay, hired

Examples

  • ἐμμίσθων γάρ τινων ἀνακραγόντων κατακαλεῖν Βροῦτόν τε καὶ Κάσσιον, ἐπεὶ τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτοῖσ θέατρον συνεδημαγωγεῖτο ἐσ τὸν ἔλεον, ἐσέδραμον ἀθρόοι καὶ τὰσ θέασ ἐπέσχον, μέχρι τὴν ἀξίωσιν αὐτῶν σβέσαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 3 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. in pay

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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