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βάναυσος

banausos

artisan, mechanical, handicraft

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Where it lives

  • Politics 33 · 5.05/10k
  • Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
  • Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
  • Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
  • Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
  • Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
  • Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
  • Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
  • Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

artisan

epith. of the class of handicraftsmen or artisans, τὸ β., = τὸ περὶ τὰς τέχνας ὧν ἄνευ πόλιν ἀδύνατον οἰκεῖσθαι Arist. Pol. 1291a1, etc.; ὁ β. δῆμος, opp. ὁ γεωργικός, ὁ ἀγοραῖος, ib. 1289b33: as Subst., artisan, ib. 1277b35; ἡ βελτίστη πόλις οὐ ποιήσει β. πολίτην ib. 1278a8; τὸ β., = οἱ βάναυσοι, ib. 1329a20.

II mechanical, handicraft, mere mechanicʼs

τέχνη β. a mechanical art, handicraft, S. Aj. 1121, Pl. Tht. 176c (pl.); β. ἔργον Arist. Pol. 1337b8; βαναυσόταται τῶν ἐργασιῶν ib. 1258b37; β. βίον ζῆν a mere mechanicʼs life, ib. 1278a21, 1328b39; β. πόνοι Plu. Num. 14: hence,

2 vulgar, in bad taste, unworthily, meanly

vulgar, in bad taste, Arist. EN 1123a19, Pl. Ep. 334b; of persons, Axiop. 1.4. Adv. -σως, προσβλέπειν unworthily, meanly, Phld. D. 1.11.

3 fastidious

later, fastidious, AP 11.326 (Autom.), 12.237 (Strat.).

In the wild

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Where it came from

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