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Headword: Ἀπόμισθος
Adler number: alpha,3439
Translated headword: dismissed without pay
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Unpaid - when someone has done a job for pay and is sent away unpaid. The word occurs in Lysias in the speech In reply to Callicles.[1]
But [plural] ἀπόμισθοι in Demosthenes [means] those not drawing pay.[2]
Greek Original:
Ἀπόμισθος: ἄμισθος, ὁ μισθοῦ ἔργον τι διαπραξάμενος καὶ ἄμισθος ἀφειμένος. κεῖται ἡ λέξις παρὰ Λυσίᾳ ἐν τῷ πρὸς Καλλικλέα. Ἀπόμισθοι δὲ παρὰ Δημοσθένει, οἱ μισθὸν μὴ λαβόντες.
Notes:
[1] Lysias fr. 138 Sauppe (now 191 Carey OCT).
[2] Demosthenes 4.46, 23.154 (web addresses 1 and 2), cited from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 October 2000@09:59:16.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied headword; supplemented and modified translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 21 August 2002@07:48:09.
William Hutton (Cosmetics, added links, set status) on 7 November 2002@10:11:29.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 June 2011@08:45:48.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links, raised status) on 29 June 2011@21:52:19.
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