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βωμολόχος λοχάω

1.properly one that lurked about the altars for the scraps that could be got there, a half-starved beggar, Luc.
2.metaph. one who would do any dirty work to get a meal, a lick-spittle, low jester, buffoon, Ar.:—as adj., βωμολόχον τι ἐξευρεῖν to invent some ribald trick, id=Ar.; of vulgar music, id=Ar.

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