1. ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon — Beekes
The corpus record
ἀνδράποδον
andrapodon
prisoner of war sold as a slave, slave
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Where it lives
- Ways and Means 16 · 41.84/10k
- Oeconomica II 5 · 10.63/10k
- Economics 5 · 8.07/10k
- Discourses 22 · 2.96/10k
- Theages 1 · 2.88/10k
- Anabasis 16 · 2.85/10k
- Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
- Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Hellenica 10 · 1.52/10k
- Memorabilia 5 · 1.4/10k
- Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon — Frisk
3. ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon — Frisk
4. ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon — LSJ
one taken in war and sold as a slave, whether originally slave or free, captive, Hdt. 3.125, 129, 5.31, etc.: orig. dist. from δοῦλος, ὅσοι δὲ ἦσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ δοῦλοι . . ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε Id. 3.125; τὰ ἀ. πάντα, καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα Th. 8.28; τὰ ἀ. τὰ δοῦλα πάντα ἀπέδοτο X. HG 1.6.15.
low fellow, ‘creature’, Pl. Grg. 483b, Thg. 130b, X. Mem. 4.2.39, D.Chr. 31.109; of a female slave, Pherecr. 16 D.
as a playful mode of address, Arr. Epict. 1.4.14, al.—Hom., Il. 7.475, has Ep. dat.pl. ἀνδραπόδεσσι (as if from ἀνδράπους), where Aristarch. proposed to read ἀνδραπόδοισι; but it is almost certain that the word was post-Homeric, and the line was rejected on that account by Zenod. and Ar.Byz. (Orig. pl.; formed on the analogy of τετράποδα, cf. τετραπόδων πάντων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων Foed.Delph.Pell. 1.B 7. Sg. in X. Ath. 1.18, etc.)
In the wild
- ἀνδραπόδων · andrapodōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..52 (DIORISIS sentence 613)
- ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 136)
- ἀνδραπόδων · andrapodōn Aristotle, Economics 1350a (DIORISIS sentence 253)
- ἀνδράποδον · andrapodon Aristotle, Economics 1352b (DIORISIS sentence 346)
- τἀνδράποδα · tandrapoda Aristotle, Economics 1352b (DIORISIS sentence 346)
- ἀνδραπόδων · andrapodōn Aristotle, Economics 1353a (DIORISIS sentence 347)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀνδράποδον (scan pp. 147-148; entry #536).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἀνδράποδον (scan p. 100; entry #569).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀνδράποδον (scan pp. 134-135; entry #502).