ἔριθος
ἔρῑθος, ὁ, ἡ,
A). day-labourer, hired servant ; of mowers or reapers, , 18.550 560 ; later ἔριθοι, spinsters and weavers, workers in wool (prob. because popularly derived from ἔριον), , 57.45 ; 15.80 ἐρίων ἔριθοι PHib. 1.121.34 (iii B.C.); of spiders, πάντα δ’ ἐρίθων ἀραχνᾶν βρίθει Fr. 286 , cf. Im. 2.28 .
II). metaph., servant, minister, τλήμων γαστρὸς ἔριθος, = crepitus ventris, ; 296 Ἔρις ..Νίκης κασιγνήτη καὶ ἔ. Timo 21.2 ; ὕπνον νυκτὸς ἔ. Epic.Anon.in BKT 5(1)p . 70 .