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ἀλφ-ηστής

alphestes

grain-eating

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What it meant

1. ἀλφηστής · alphēstēs — Beekes

ἀλφηστής, -ov [m.] ‘grain-eating’, in the epic expression ἀνέρες ἀλφησταί (Od.).

2. ἀλφηστής · alphēstēs — Chantraine

ἀλφηστής, -οῦὔ : m.(Od., Hés., H. Ap., Æsch. Sept 769, $. Ph. 709). La tradition ancienne donne des équivalences assez vagues, cf. Hsch. ἀλφησταί *® ἄνθρωποι, βασιλεῖς, ἔντιμοι et ἀλφηστῇσι τοῖς ebperiroïs καὶ συνετοῖς. On ἃ pensé que dans l’Od. (1,349 ; 6,8; 13,261) le mot désignait les hommes comme entreprenants. L'emploi d'Hés. Trav. 82 n'orienle vers aucune signification précise. On a interprété le terme comme … — [Chantraine, s.v. ἀλφηστής, p. 81]

3. ἀλφ-ηστής · alph-ēstēs — LSJ

earners, enterprising, traders, seafarers

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 fish, Labrus cinaedus, lewd men

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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