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ὑπόμισθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόμισθος ὑπόμισθον

Structure: ὑπομισθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. serving for pay, hired

Examples

  • ἀλλά μοι ἐκεῖνο ἐννόησον, ὡσ πάμπολυ διαφέρει, ἐσ οἰκίαν τινὸσ πλουσίου ὑπόμισθον παρελθόντα δουλεύειν καὶ ἀνέχεσθαι ὅσα μοί φησι τὸ βιβλίον, ἢ δημοσίᾳ πράττοντά τι τῶν κοινῶν καὶ ἐσ δύναμιν πολιτευόμενον ἐπὶ τούτῳ παρὰ βασιλέωσ μισθοφορεῖν. (Lucian, Apologia 25:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο αὐτῶν τὸ ἔργον ὑπόμισθον ἦν· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:5)

Synonyms

  1. serving for 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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