Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μισθωτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθωτός μισθωτή μισθωτόν

Structure: μισθωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from misqo/w

Sense

  1. hired
  2. an hireling, hired servant, mercenaries

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν μισθωτῶν δέ τισ ἦν ᾠδὴ τῶν ἐσ τοὺσ ἀγροὺσ φοιτώντων, ὡσ Τηλεκλείδησ φησὶν ἐν Ἀμφικτύοσιν καὶ βαλανέων ἄλλαι, ὡσ Κράτησ ἐν Τόλμαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 3:2)
  • ὅταν τε εἰσ χρείαν τοῦ μάχεσθαι περὶ ἑαυτῶν τοὺσ δήμουσ ἀφικνῶνται, οὐδὲν κοινὸν ἐν αὐτοῖσ αὖ μετὰ προθυμίασ τοῦ ἐθέλειν κινδυνεύειν καὶ μάχεσθαι ἀνευρίσκουσιν, ἀλλὰ κεκτημένοι μυριάδασ ἀπεράντουσ λογισμῷ, ἀχρήστουσ εἰσ πόλεμον πάσασ κέκτηνται, καὶ καθάπερ ἐνδεεῖσ ἀνθρώπων μισθούμενοι, ὑπὸ μισθωτῶν καὶ ὀθνείων ἀνθρώπων ἡγοῦνταί ποτε σωθήσεσθαι. (Plato, Laws, book 3 129:2)
  • " μᾶλλον οὖν ἔτι παρρησίᾳ διὰ τὴν ἱερωσύνην ὑπὲρ τῆσ εἰρήνησ τῶν μισθωτῶν ἐνισταμένων, "ἀσεβὲσ μέν," ἔφη, "καὶ παράνομον, ἐργάσομαι δὲ ὅμωσ, ὃ βούλεσθε. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 18 7:3)
  • καὶ ἀφέντεσ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν Ζεβεδαῖον ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ μετὰ τῶν μισθωτῶν ἀπῆλθον ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ. (, chapter 1 25:2)

Synonyms

  1. hired

  2. an hireling

Related

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

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