πλανήτην: cp. Eur. Heracl. 878 “ξένοι πλανήτην εἴχετ᾽ ἄθλιον βίον”. The word is not in itself opprobrious: in 123 it is merely opp. to ἔγχωρος: cp. Plat. Rep. 371D “καλοῦμεν...τοὺς...πλανήτας ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις, ἐμπόρους”. In O. T. 1029 “πλάνης”, said by Oed. to the Corinthian, takes its colour from the added ἐπὶ θητείᾳ, "a vagrant hireling."
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