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βάναυσος [α^], ον, (for βαύναυσος, from βαῦνος, αὔω acc. to EM187.40, cf. βαναυσία: πᾶσα τέχνη διὰ πυρός, Hsch.; βαναύσων seems to be
A.f.l. for βαύνων in Heraclit.All.69):—epith. of the class of handicraftsmen or artisans, τὸ β., = τὸ περὶ τὰς τέχνας ὧν ἄνευ πόλιν ἀδύνατον οἰκεῖσθαι Arist.Pol.1291a1, etc.; ὁ β. δῆμος, opp. ὁ γεωργικός, ὁ ἀγοραῖος, ib.1289b33: as Subst., artisan, ib.1277b35; ἡ βελτίστη πόλις οὐ ποιήσει β. πολίτην ib.1278a8; τὸ β., = οἱ βάναυσοι, ib.1329a20.
II. τέχνη β. a mechanical art, handicraft, S.Aj.1121, Pl.Tht.176c(pl.); “β. ἔργον” Arist.Pol.1337b8; βαναυσόταται τῶν ἐργασιῶν ib.1258b37; β. βίον ζῆν a mere mechanic's life, ib.1278a21, 1328b39; “β. πόνοι” Plu.Num. 14: hence,
2. vulgar, in bad taste, Arist.EN1123a19, Pl.Ep. 334b; of persons, Axiop.1.4. Adv. “-σως, προσβλέπειν” unworthily, meanly, Phld.D.1.11.
3. later, fastidious, AP11.326 (Autom.), 12.237 (Strat.).
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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