A.“τέλος” 1.8, ὠνέομαι) farmer or collector of tolls, customs, or taxes, Ar.Eq.248 (troch.), Aeschin.1.119, Herod.6.64, PCair.Zen.31.20 (iii B.C.), UPZ 113.8 (ii B.C.), Aristocl. ap. Eus.PE15.2, etc.: freq. with a sense of reproach, πάντες τελῶναι, πάντες εἰσὶν ἅρπαγες, of the Oropians, Xeno 1; “ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἂν καὶ τελώνης σεμνυνθείη βάναυσος” Plb.12.13.9, cf. Gal. 8.587, 9.804; = Lat. publicanus, Ev.Matt.5.46, al.; πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ τ. Asp.in EN102.21.
τελών-ης , ου, ὁ, (
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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