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μισθοφορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθοφορία

Structure: μισθοφορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. service as a mercenary

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἰδὼν δὲ ὅμωσ τὰ πάντα ἠρόμην τινὰ τῶν ναυτῶν, ὁπόσην ἀποφέρει ἡ ναῦσ τῷ δεσπότῃ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ κατ̓ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον τὴν μισθοφορίαν. (Lucian, 23:1)
  • ἔνθα δὲ κατὰ θέρειαν ἤρχετο τὰ μὲν σιτομετρῶν καὶ μισθοφορίαν παρεχόμενοσ τὰ δὲ καὶ ταῖσ ἐξοπλισίαισ πρὸσ φόβον τῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπιμελῶσ γυμνάζων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 93:1)
  • ταυτὶ γὰρ ἔγωγε ἀκούω, Περικλέα πεποιηκέναι Ἀθηναίουσ ἀργοὺσ καὶ δειλοὺσ καὶ λάλουσ καὶ φιλαργύρουσ, εἰσ μισθοφορίαν πρῶτον καταστήσαντα. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 419:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν τὴν μισθοφορίαν λαμβάνοντεσ ὀμνύουσιν πάντων προτιμήσειν τὴν τοῦ Καίσαροσ σωτηρίαν, ὑμεῖσ δὲ δε τοσούτων καὶ τηλικούτων ἠξιωμένοι οὐκ ὀμόσετε ἢ ὀμόσαντεσ οὐκ ἐμμενεῖτε; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. service as a mercenary

Related

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

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