A.townsman, citizen, Il.11.242, Od.13.192, etc.; dist. from πολίτης, ἀστός being one who has civil rights only, πολίτης one who has political rights also, Arist.Pol.1278a34; “ἀ. πικρὸς πολίταις” E. Med.223; οἱ ἀ. the commons, opp. οἱ ἀγαθοί, Pi.P.3.71, cf. Isoc.3.21; opp. ξένος, Pi.O.7.90, Hdt.2.160, 3.8; esp. at Athens, Lys.6.17, Pl. Ap.30a, Isoc. l.c., cf. S.OT817, OC13, etc.; opp. μέτοικος, ξένος, Pl. R.563a; in Egypt, citizen of Alexandria (cf. “ἄστυ” 11.3), PGnom.38, al. —Fem. ἀστή, q. v., but Ἀστός fem. as epith. of Κόρη, IG12(5).225 (Paros, v B. C.). (ϝασστός and ϝαστός, IG9(1).333.14 (Locr., v B. C.), 9(2).1226 (Phalanna, v B.C.).)
ἀστός , ὁ, (ἄστυ)
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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