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μισθός , ὁ,
A.hire, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥητῷ for fixed wages, Il.21.445; μισθοῖο τέλος the end of our hired service, ib.450; “μισθὸς . . εἰρημένος ἄρκιος ἔστω” Hes.Op.370; “θητεύειν ἐπὶ μισθῷ παρά τινι” Hdt.8.137, cf. 5.65; “πείθειν ἐπὶ μ.” Id.8.4; “μισθοῦ ἕνεκα ὑπηρετεῖν” X.An.2.5.14: gen. μισθοῦ for hire, S.Tr.560, Th.4.124, 7.25, D.19.94; “μ. στρατεύεσθαι” Plb.3.109.6; μισθὸν δοῦναι, διδόναι, πορίζειν, E.Andr.609, HF19, Ar.Eq. 1019; ὡς ἐς ἑξήκοντα ναῦς μηνὸς μισθόν as a month's pay, Th.6.8; “μισθοὺς μεγάλους ἔφερον” Thgn.434, cf. Ar.Ach.66; “μ. λαβεῖν” Hdt. 8.117, E.IT593, Th.8.83; “δέχεσθαι” X.Ap.16; “φέρεσθαι” Id.Oec.1.4; μ. πράττεσθαι exact it, Pi.O.10(11).29, Pl.Prt.325b; “μ. αἰτεῖν” Id.R.345e; hire, μ. ὄνων, πλοίου, PAmh.2.126.11,37.
b. esp. at Athens, pay, allowance for public service, μ. δικαστικός Sch.Ar.V. 299; “μ. ἐκκλησιαστικός” Luc.Dem.Enc.25; ὁ τῆς πρυτανείας μ. pay received during the prytany, Aeschin.1.123.
2. physician's fee, “μ. ἄρνυσθαι” Arist.Pol.1287a36.
II. generally, recompense, reward, Il.10.304, etc.; “ἀρετῆς μ.” Pl.R.363d, cf. Ev.Matt.5.12, etc.
2. in bad sense, requital, A.Ag.1261, S.Ant.221; “μ. ἀνδρὶ δυσσεβεῖ” E. Hipp.1050. (Cf. Avest. mīˇžda-, Goth. mizdō, OSlav. m[icaron]zda 'pay', OE. meord, méd 'meed'.)
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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