Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.salary, reckoned in money, “τό τε ὀ. καὶ σιτομετρίαν καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον” PCair.Zen.507.5, cf. 421.6, 483.14, 498.5 (all iii B. C.); ἵνα ἡμῖν ὀ. προστεθῇ καὶ σιτάριον ib.49.4 (iii B. C.); μετρήματα καὶ ὀ. corn- and money-payments, UPZ14.26 (ii B. C.); “φυλακιτῶν” PPetr.3p.230 (iii B. C.); of a bank clerk, PCair.Zen.342.6 (iii B. C.): distd. from γραμματικόν (bonus on turnover), PStrassb.105.4 (iii B. C.); χωρὶς ὀψωνίων, of unsalaried services, Inscr.Prien.121.34 (i B. C.).

2. a policeman's pay, PLille25.55 (iii B. C.), PFay.302 (ii B. C.), IG9(2).1109.27 (Thess., ii/i B. C.); freq. a soldier's pay, PStrassb.103.16 (iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank6.7 (ii B. C.), Plb.6.39.12: so in pl., pay of an army, Rev.Ét.Anc.33.8 (Theangela, iv/iii B. C.), OGI 229.106 (iii B. C.), SIG410.19 (iii B. C.), 581.34 (ii/i B. C.), Plb.1.67.1, 3.25.4, LXX 1 Ma.3.28, Aristeas 22.

3. allowance paid to a victorious athlete, PRyl. 153.25 (ii A. D.), CPHerm.54.7, al. (iii A. D.); allowance or scholarship paid to a music-student, “προδοῦναί μοι τὸ ὀ. καὶ τὸ κατὰ μῆνα ἀνάλωμα” PCair.Zen.440.6 (iii B. C.); allowance to a son or daughter, BGU665 ii 15 (i A. D.), POxy.898.31 (ii A. D.); to a slave, distd. from ἱματις μός, PCair.Zen.28.6, 100.14 (iii B. C.).

4. wages of labour, τὰ σώματα ἐνοχλεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰ ὀ. ἀπαιτοῦντα ib. 43.2, cf. 27.2, al., PPetr.2p.113 (all iii B. C.), POxy.974 (iii A. D.); “ἀρτάβην κριθῆς εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων” PTeb.420.24 (iii A. D.): metaph., ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας the wages of sin, Ep.Rom.6.23.

5. a magician's fee, PMag.Par.1.2454.

6. gratuity to tax-farmers, UPZ112v3 (pl.).

7. = ὄψον 1.1 (cf. Lat. obsonium), τῶν ἀνηλωμάτων πάντων σίτου καὶ ὀψωνίων ib.91.13 (ii B. C.).—The word is rejected by Phryn. 393. First used by Men.1051 (no context); “ᾔτησεν εἰς ὀ. τριώβολον” Thugen.2. Glossed ὀψωνία, also (in pl.) κέρδη, χαρίσματα, by Phot.