The corpus record

ἔμμισθος

emmisthos

in receipt of pay, hired

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Where it lives

Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ἔμμισθος · emmisthos — LSJ

in receipt of pay, hired, paid for, pensionary

in receipt of pay, hired, Th. 6.22; ξένοι Pl. Lg. 816e, al.; ἔ. τινος paid for a thing, Luc. Merc.Cond. 13; ἔ. τινα ποιεῖν to make him pensionary, παῖδας ὀρφανούς Plu. Alex. 71; ὅλην τὴν πόλιν Id. Per. 12.

2 paid

of work, paid, ὀργάνων καὶ ἔργων γένεσις ἔ. Pl. Lg. 920e.

3 mercenary

metaph., mercenary, εἰ ἔ. ἡ θεραπεία Ph. 2.19.

In the wild

ἔμμισθοι · emmisthoi Demosthenes, On the Crown 49 (DIORISIS sentence 143)
ἐμμίσθους · emmisthous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 1513)
ἔμμισθον · emmisthon Plato, Epistles 363
ἔμμισθον · emmisthon Plato, Laws 920
ἐμμίσθοις · emmisthois Plato, Laws 816
ἔμμισθος · emmisthos Plato, Sophist 231

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Where it came from

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