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θής , θητός, ὁ,
A.serf, bondsman, “θῆτές τε δμῶές τε” Od.4.644; later, hired labourer, “θῆτά τ᾽ ἄοικον ποιεῖσθαι” Hes.Op.602; “μισθωτοὺς καὶ θῆτας” Pl.Plt.290a; βάναυσοι καὶ θ. (opp. δοῦλοι) Arist.Pol.1278a13.
2. at Athens, members of the fourth class in the constitution of Solon, IG12.45, Arist.Ath.7.3, Th.6.43, Poll.3.82.
3. v. θάτας.
II. fem. θῆσσα , later Att. θῆττα , ἡ, hired servant-girl, opp. ἐπίκληρος, Posidipp.35; “θ. γυνή” A.R.1.193, cf. Ant.Lib.25.3.
2. as Adj.,= θητική, θῆσσα τράπεζα menial fare, E.Alc.2; “θ. ἑστία” Id.El.205 (lyr.).
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 (8):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 7.3
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 2
    • Euripides, Electra, 205
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 602
    • Plato, Statesman, 290a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.43
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.644
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.193
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