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μισθ-όω ,
A.let out for hire, farm out, in pres. and impf., offer to let, “τινί τι” Ar.Lys.958, Lys.7.10, D.50.52; μισθοῖ αὑτὸν Ὀλυνθίοις offers his services for pay to them, Id.23.150, cf. 149; ἑαυτὸν ἐπί τι for a purpose, Id.18.21; “μ. τὸ τέμενος” IG12.94.5; “οἶκον” Lys.32.23, D.27.15, 28.15; “τοὺς οἴκους τῶν ὀρφανῶν” Arist.Ath.56.7: c. inf., μ. τὸν νηὸν τριηκοσίων ταλάντων ἐξεργάσασθαι farm out the building of it for 300 talents, Hdt.2.180; “ὅσου τὴν τριηραρχίαν ἦσαν μεμισθωκότες” D.21.80.
II. Med., fut. “μισθώσομαι” Ar.V.52: aor. ἐμισθωσάμην: pf. μεμίσθωμαι (v. infr.):—have let to one, hire, c. acc. pers. vel rei, πλοῖον, μισθωτούς, ἐπικουρικόν, Hdt.1.24, Ar.Av.1152, Th.4.52; “οἰκίαν ἣν ᾤκει μεμισθωμένος” Is.6.39; τίνα τῶν πολιτῶν ἑταιρεῖν μεμίσθωμαι; D.45.79; “τῆς οἰκίας ἧς ἐμεμίσθωτο” Lys.3.11; “μισθωσάμενός τινος τὴν οἰκίαν” D. 27.58; “μ. τι παρά τινος” Hdt.1.68; “τοὺς μεμισθωμένους παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ τὸ χωρίον” Lys.17.8; μ. τινὰ ταλάντου engage his services at a talent, Hdt.3.131; ὀλίγου at a low price, Arist.Pol.1259a13: c. inf., μ. νηὸν ἐξοικοδομῆσαι contract for the building of the temple, Hdt.5.62; μ. γράψαι ψάφισμα Maiuri Nuova Silloge 432 (Cos); μισθοῦσθαί τινα c. inf., hire him to do a thing, Hdt.9.34; “μισθοῦ σαυτὸν ἀμφορεαφορεῖν” Ar.Fr. 299, cf. D.18.33; μ. ὑπέρ τινος make a contract for a thing, Id.53.21; ὁ μισθωσάμενος the contractor, Is.11.34.
III. Pass., aor. ἐμισθώθην: pf. μεμίσθωμαι (v. infr.):—to be hired for pay, Μαρδονίῳ μεμισθωμένος οὐκ ὀλίγου hired by him at no small price, Hdt.9.38; ἐπί τινι for a thing, X.An.1.3.1; ἐκ τοῦ μισθωθῆναι from the hire, D.27.58; of a house, to be let on contract, Id.28.1; of a mercenary, “μισθωθεὶς ὑπό τινος” Id.23.149.
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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