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ἀλφ-ηστής , οῦ, ὁ, Hom. only in Od., in phrase ἀνέρες ἀλφησταί, lit.
A.earners (ἀλφάνω), i.e. enterprising men, Od.1.349, cf. Hes. Op.82; esp. of traders or seafarers, Od.13.261, h.Ap.458; ἑκὰς ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστάων, of the Phaeacians, Od.6.8.—Ep. word, twice in Trag. (lyr.), A.Th.770, S.Ph.709.
II. kind of fish that went in pairs, Labrus cinaedus, Epich.44, Numen. ap. Ath.7.320e: metaph., of lewd men, Sophr.63.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 770
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 82
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.261
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.349
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.8
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 458
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 709
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