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ὠν-ή , Aeol. ὄννα IG11(2).1064 (ii B. C.), ἡ, (cf. ὦνος)
A.buying, purchasing, ὠ. καὶ πρῆσις buying and selling, Hdt.1.153, cf. Hyp.Ath.5, S. Fr.909, Pl.R.371d, Sph.223d; “ὠνὴν ποιεῖσθαί τινος” D.33.8, cf. Pl.Lg. 849b; “δἰ ὠνῆς” Plu.2.753d; “διὰ τὴν ὠ.” Luc.Ind.16; “ἐν τῇ τῶν σιτίων ὠ.” Pl.Prt.314a.
2. purchase, bargain, E.Cyc.150.
II. contract for the farming of taxes or other sources of revenue, “ὠνὰς πρίασθαι ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου” And.1.73, cf. 92, Plu.Alc.5; τοὶ πριάμενοι τὰν ὠνὰν σίτου, οἴνου, τετραπόδων, SIG1000.4,5,6 (Cos, i B. C.); “τρὶς ἀναπραθείσης τῆς ὠ.” IPE12.32A53 (Olbia, iii B. C.); ὠνὰς omnium venditas, of the proceeds of local taxes, Cic.Att.5.16.2.
2. in Dor. Inscrr. (also in Arg.D.37 (pl.)), deed of sale, contract, “ἁ ὠνὰ παρὰ Ξενοκράτη Δελφόν” GDI1715, al. (Delph., ii B. C.); ὠνὰν τὰν ἐν τῷ ἱαρῷ ἀναγεγραμμέναν ib.1764 (ibid., ii B. C.); “τᾶς ὠ. τὸ ἀντίγραφον” IG9(1).331.5 (Chaleion, ii B. C.).
III. purchase-money, price, “εἰς . . τῶν ὅπλων τὴν ὠ. παρέσχε τρισμυρίας δραχμάς” Lys.19.43; “ἐπέθηκε τῇ ὠ. τάλαντον” Plu.Alc. 5.
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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