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ἀλφηστής

ἀλφηστής, working for one’s daily bread, laborious, enterprising

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ἀλφηστὰς masculine accusative plural, masculine nominative singular of ἀλφηστής

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ἀλφ-ηστής, οῦ, ὁ, Hom. only in Od., in phrase ἀνέρες ἀλφησταί, lit.
  • 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.

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