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ὠν-ητός , ή, όν, also ός, όν, E.Hel.816:—
A.bought, of slaves, “ἐμὲ δ᾽ ὠνητὴ τέκε μήτηρ” Od.14.202; “δοῦλος οὐκ ὠνητὸς ἀλλ᾽ οἴκοι τραφείς” S.OT1123, cf. E.Hec.365, Pl.Lg.841d, etc.; opp. μίσθιος, Plu.Lyc.16: but ὠνητὴ δύναμις a mercenary force, opp. οἰκεία, Th.1.121; ὠν. σῖτος, opp. δωρητός, Plu.Cor.16.
II. to be bought, that may be bought, “ἐλπίς” E.Hel.816; “λόγοι” Id.Fr.978; “βασιλεῖαι” Pl.R.544d; “ἀρχαί” Arist.Pol.1273a36; “φιλίη” APl.4.80 (Agath.): c. gen. pretii, δόξα χρημάτων οὐκ ὠνητή not to be bought for money, Isoc.2.32: but ἐλπὶς χρήμασιν ὠνητή with money, Th. 3.40.
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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    • Euripides, Hecuba, 365
    • Euripides, Helen, 816
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.202
    • Isocrates, To Nicocles, 32
    • Plato, Laws, 841d
    • Plato, Republic, 544d
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1123
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.121
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.40
    • Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, 16
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 16
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