ἀλφηστής
ἀλφηστής, οῦ, ὁ, Hom. only in Od., in phrase ἀνέρες ἀλφησταί, lit.
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working for one's daily bread, laborious, enterprising
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Headword:
ἀλφηστής
Headword (normalized):
ἀλφηστής
Headword (normalized/stripped):
αλφηστης
Intro Text:
ἀλφηστής, οῦ, ὁ, Hom. only in Od., in phrase ἀνέρες ἀλφησταί, lit.
IDX:
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Children (1)
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earners ( ἀλφάνω), i.e. enterprising men, Od. 1.349, cf. Hes. Op. 82; esp. of traders or seafarers, Od. 13.261, h.Ap. 458; ἑκὰς ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστάων, of the Phaeacians, Od. 6.8.— Ep. word, twice in Trag. (lyr.), A. Th. 770, S. Ph. 709.
Children (1)
II
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n4763-0-0-0
fish that went in pairs, Labrus cinaedus, Epich. 44, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.320e: metaph., of lewd men, Sophr. 63.
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