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λυ_σι^τελ-ής , ές, (λύω v. 2, τέλος) prop.
A.paying for expenses incurred: hence, useful, profitable, advantageous, “τὸ πρᾶγμά μοι λ.” Axionic.6.8; “οὐδέποτ᾽ . . -έστερον ἀδικία δικαιοσύνης” Pl.R.354a, cf. 364a; “ἐμπορεύματα -έστερα” X.Hier.9.11; -“εστάτην ζωὴν ζῆν” Pl.R.344e; λυσιτελῆ advantages, Plb.4.38.8; τὸ -έστατον πρὸς ἀργύριον what was most profitable in point of money, D. 20.13; “τὰ λ. καὶ ἀλυσιτελῆ πρός τι” Phld.Mus.p.93 K.; “κτήσεις -έστεραι” Id.Oec.p.68 J.
2. cheap, X.Vect.4.30, D.H.7.37.
II. rarely of persons, profitable, advantageous, Pl.Phdr.239c.
III. Adv. -“λῶς” D.S.14.102: Sup. -έστατα Hdn.3.5.1.
2. cheaply, “τοῦ δέοντος πρίασθαι -έστερον” Ael.NA10.50.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 13
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.102
    • Plato, Republic, 344e
    • Plato, Republic, 354a
    • Plato, Republic, 364a
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 239c
    • Xenophon, Hiero, 9.11
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 4.30
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.38.8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.37
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 10.50
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