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Headword: *)epi/sitos
Adler number: epsilon,2570
Translated headword: episitos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who works for the sake of food [sc. only].
Greek Original:
*)epi/sitos: o( trofh=s xa/rin e)rgazo/menos.
Notes:
In practice, a slave. See also Hesychius epsilon5167 (s.v. e)pisi/tios [sic]; and cf. a scholion on Plato, Republic 420A; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.246F [6.50 Kaibel].
cf. generally epsilon 2569.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 November 2007@00:54:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 November 2007@03:38:17.
David Whitehead on 18 October 2012@04:46:53.
David Whitehead (expanded a ref) on 16 January 2015@07:29:14.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 31 January 2016@04:23:13.
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