workman
workman
subs.
P. and V. δημιουργός, ὁ, ἐργά̆της, ὁ, Ar. and P. χειροτέχνης, ὁ, V. χειρῶναξ, ὁ.
Carpenter: P. and V. τέκτων, ὁ.
subs.
P. and V. δημιουργός, ὁ, ἐργά̆της, ὁ, Ar. and P. χειροτέχνης, ὁ, V. χειρῶναξ, ὁ.
Carpenter: P. and V. τέκτων, ὁ.
WORKMAN
opifex (general term): artifex (an artisan a handicraftsman who employs skill although only mechanical): faber (one who works in hard materials usually with an adjective denoting his occupation; e.g. faber tignarius a carpenter; faber ferrarius a smith. Hence artisans employed in a building and those in the army employed in fortifying a camp etc. were called fabri; Vid: Herzog Caes. B.G. 5 11; also Cic. Cat. 4 8 17 includes workmen in the expression qui in tabernis sunt): the commonest workman opifex vilissimae mercis: a workman who sits at his work sellularius (in Liv. 8 20 distinguished from opifex: opificum vulgus et sellularii); sedentaria cujus opera est (Col. 12 3 8): workman’s tools fabrilia (plur.).
opifex (general term): artifex (an artisan a handicraftsman who employs skill although only mechanical): faber (one who works in hard materials usually with an adjective denoting his occupation; e.g. faber tignarius a carpenter; faber ferrarius a smith. Hence artisans employed in a building and those in the army employed in fortifying a camp etc. were called fabri; Vid: Herzog Caes. B.G. 5 11; also Cic. Cat. 4 8 17 includes workmen in the expression qui in tabernis sunt): the commonest workman opifex vilissimae mercis: a workman who sits at his work sellularius (in Liv. 8 20 distinguished from opifex: opificum vulgus et sellularii); sedentaria cujus opera est (Col. 12 3 8): workman’s tools fabrilia (plur.).