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δρα_πέτ-ης , ου, Ion. δρηπέτης , εω, ὁ, (διδράσκω, δρᾶναι)
A.runaway, βασιλέος from the king, Hdt.3.137; esp. runaway slave, “δούλοισι, καὶ τοῦτο δρηπέτῃσι” Id.6.11, cf. Ar.Ach.1187, Herod. 3.13, etc.; “δ. ἀνήρ” S.Fr.63.
2. Adj., “ποὺς δ.” E.Or.1498 (lyr.), cf. Aeschin.3.152; βίος δ. fugitive life, AP10.87 (Pall.); οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον . . μεθείς no skulker's lot, i. e. not a lump of earth which would fall in pieces, of the lot of Cresphontes, S.Aj.1285.
II. fem. δρα_πέτις , ιδος, Luc.Asin.25: as Adj., στέγη a home whose occupants are shifting, S.Fr.174; “ψυχή” AP12.80 (Mel.); “μέλισσαι” Ael.Ep.5; Δραπέτιδες, title of play by Cratinus.
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 (9):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 152
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1187
    • Euripides, Orestes, 1498
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.11
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.137
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1285
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 174
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 63
    • Aelian, Epistulae Rusticae, 5
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