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μίσθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μίσθιος μίσθιᾱ μίσθιον

Structure: μισθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: misqo/s

Sense

  1. salaried, hired

Examples

  • κατόπιν δὲ πάντων [τῶν ταγμάτων] ὁ μίσθιοσ ὄχλοσ, οἷσ οὐραγοὶ πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν ἠκολούθουν πεζοί τε καὶ ὁπλῖται καὶ τῶν ἱππέων συχνοί. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 156:1)

Synonyms

  1. salaried

Related

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

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