ὀψώνιον
ὀψώνιον, τό,(ὄψον, ὠνέομαι)
A). salary, reckoned in money, τό τε ὀ. καὶ σιτομετρίαν καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον PCair.Zen. 507.5 , cf. 421.6 , 483.14 , 498.5 (all iii B. C.); ἵνα ἡμῖν ὀ. προστεθῇ καὶ σιτάριον ib. 49.4 (iii B. C.); μετρήματα καὶ ὀ. corn- and money-payments, UPZ 14.26 (ii B. C.); φυλακιτῶν PPetr. 3p.230 (iii B. C.); of a bank clerk, PCair.Zen. 342.6 (iii B. C.): distd. from γραμματικόν (bonus on turnover), PStrassb. 105.4 (iii B. C.); χωρὶς ὀψωνίων, of unsalaried services, Inscr.Prien. 121.34 (i B. C.).
2). a policeman's pay, 25.55 (iii B. C.), PFay. 302 (ii B. C.), IG 9(2).1109.27 (Thess., ii/i B. C.); freq. a soldier's pay, 103.16 (iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank 6.7 (ii B. C.), 6.39.12 : so in pl., pay of an army, Rev.Ét.Anc. 33.8 (Theangela, iv/iii B. C.), OGI 229.106 (iii B. C.), SIG 410.19 (iii B. C.), 581.34 (ii/i B. C.), 1.67.1 , 3.25.4 , 1 Ma. 3.28 , Aristeas 22 .
3). allowance paid to a victorious athlete, PRyl. 153.25 (ii A. D.), CPHerm. 54.7 , al. (iii A. D.); allowance or scholarship paid to a music-student, προδοῦναί μοι τὸ ὀ. καὶ τὸ κατὰ μῆνα ἀνάλωμα PCair.Zen. 440.6 (iii B. C.); allowance to a son or daughter, BGU 665 ii 15 (i A. D.), POxy. 898.31 (ii A. D.); to a slave, distd. from ἱματις μός, PCair.Zen. 28.6 , 100.14 (iii B. C.).
4). wages of labour, τὰ σώματα ἐνοχλεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰ ὀ. ἀπαιτοῦντα ib. 43.2 , cf. 27.2 , al., PPetr. 2p.113 (all iii B. C.), POxy. 974 (iii A. D.); ἀρτάβην κριθῆς εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων PTeb. 420.24 (iii A. D.): metaph., ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας the wages of sin, Ep.Rom. 6.23 .
5). a magician's fee, 1.2454 .
6). gratuity to tax-farmers, UPZ 112v3 (pl.).