previous next
πένης , ητος, ὁ, (πένομαι)
A.one who works for his living, day-labourer, poor man, opp. πλούσιος, Democr.283; opp. δυνάμενος, Archyt.3; πτωχοῦ μὲν γὰρ βίος . . , ζῆν ἐστιν μηδὲν ἔχοντα: τοῦ δὲ πένητος ζῆν φει- “δόμενον καὶ τοῖς ἔργοις προσέχοντα” Ar.Pl. 553 ; “οἱ π. αὐτῶν” Hdt.1.133, 2.47 ; “πλούσιος ἐκ πένητος” Lys.1.4 ; “πένητες ἄνθρωποι” Hdt.8.51 ; οἷ᾽ ἀνὴρ π. S.Ph.584; “π. ἵππος” X. Oec. 11.5.
II. as Adj., “π. δόμοι” E. El.1139 : c. neut., ἐν πένητι σώματι ib. 372 : c. gen., χρημάτων πένητες poor in money, ib.38 ; “π. φίλων” Pl.Ep.332c ; “π. ἀπολογίας” Luc. Apol. 11 : Comp. “πενέστερος” X.Ath.1.13: Sup. “πενέστατος” D.21.123.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (13 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 553
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 123
    • Euripides, Electra, 38
    • Euripides, Electra, 1139
    • Euripides, Electra, 372
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.47
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.51
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.133
    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 4
    • Pseudo Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, 1.13
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 584
    • Xenophon, Economics, 11.5
    • Lucian, Apologia, 11
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: