A.day-labourer, hired servant ; of mowers or reapers, Il. 18.550,560 ; later ἔριθοι, αἱ, spinsters and weavers, workers in wool (prob. because popularly derived from ἔριον), D.57.45, Theoc.15.80 ; “ἐρίων ἔριθοι” PHib.1.121.34 (iii B.C.); of spiders, “πάντα δ᾽ ἐρίθων ἀραχνᾶν βρίθει” S.Fr.286, cf. Philostr.Im.2.28.
ἔρι_θος , ὁ, ἡ,