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ἀργυ^ρ-ίτης , ου, ὁ, fem. ἀργυ^ρ-ῖτις , ιδος, ἡ,
A.of or belonging to silver, “γῆ” containing silver-ore, Posidon. 48, cf. Gal.12.184; “ψάμμος” Dsc.5.94; “βῶλος” Plb.34.9.10; more freq. ἀργυρῖτις, ἡ, as Subst., silver-ore, “φλὲψ ἀργυρίτιδος” X.Vect.1.5, cf. 4.4; κατεργασάμενος τὴν ἀ. Docum. ap. D.37.28; also a form of λιθάργυρος, Dsc.5.87.
II. of or for money, ἀγὼν ἀργυρίτης a contest in which the prize was money (cf. στεφανίτης), Plu.2.820d, Lync. ap.Ath.13.584c.
2. a moneyed man, AB442.
3. fem. -ῖτις, = λινόζωστις ἄρρην, Ps.-Dsc.4.189.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus, 28
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 1.5
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 4.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 34.9.10
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