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μίσθ-ωμα , ατος, τό,
A.price agreed on in hiring, contract-price, Hdt.2.180, etc.: pl., IG12.347.43, al. (v B.C.), 22.334.28 (iv B.C.); a courtesan's price, Machoap.Ath.13.581a; “τῶν ἀκροαμάτων τὰ μ.” Phylarch.66 J.; “τὰ παρά τινος μ.” Alciphr.1.37.
2. contract, μισθοῦσι μισθώματα farm out contracts, Arist.Ath.47.2, cf. D.19.125; ἀπὸ μισθωμάτων θύειν by contract, Isoc.7.29 (but expld. as from the proceeds of rents by Did. ap. Harp.).
3. rent, IG12(7).55.15 (Amorgos, iv/iii B.C.), Tab.Heracl.1.128.
II. that which is let for hire, hired house, Act.Ap.28.30.
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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    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 47.2
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 125
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.180
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 29
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