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μίσθ-ωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.letting for hire, Pl.Sph.219d, D.36.7, 27.59; “αἱ μ. τῶν τεμενῶν” Arist.Ath.47.4, cf. Pl.Lg.759e.
b. lease, PCair.Zen.334.5 (iii B.C.), PFay.96 (ii A.D.); μ. ἁπλῆ, δισσὴ γραφεῖσα, POxy.1037.20 (v A.D.), 913.20 (v A.D.).
II. rent, “ὁπόσην ἂν ἄλφῃ μ. τὸ τέμενος” IG12.94.15; “μ. φέρειν” D.36.51; μ. ἀποδιδόναι Lexap. eund.43.58, cf. Arist.Ath.2.2; “ὀφείλειν μισθώσεις τεμενῶν” D.57.63; “σιτικὴ μ.” PAmh.2.31.6 (ii B.C.).
III. payment of wages earned by slaves to their master, D.28.12; of soldiers' pay, Lys.19.43.
IV. income from an estate, μ. φέρειν, λαμβάνειν, Is.5.35,36.
V. farming out by contract, PLille 1v.3 (iii B.C.).
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 (13):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 2.2
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 47.4
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 59
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 2, 12
    • Demosthenes, For Phormio, 51
    • Demosthenes, For Phormio, 7
    • Demosthenes, Against Macartatus, 58
    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 63
    • Isaeus, Cleonymus, 36
    • Isaeus, Dicaeogenes, 35
    • Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes, 43
    • Plato, Laws, 759e
    • Plato, Sophist, 219d
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