The corpus record

κᾰπηλ-εία

kapeleia · ἡ

retail trade

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Where it lives

Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Laws 13 · 1.26/10k
Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κᾰπηλ-εία · kapēl-eia — LSJ

retail trade, provision-dealing, tavern-keeping, petty trades

retail trade, esp. provision-dealing, tavern-keeping, Pl. Lg. 849d, 918d, Arist. Pol. 1256a41: in pl., petty trades, ib. 1291a6; κ. ἀσκεῖν προσώπῳ, of women who paint, Poll. 5.102.

In the wild

καπηλεία · kapēleia Aristotle, Economics 1343a (DIORISIS sentence 23)
καπηλείας · kapēleias Aristotle, Politics 1256a (DIORISIS sentence 171)
καπηλείας · kapēleias Aristotle, Politics 1291a (DIORISIS sentence 1454)
καπηλείαις · kapēleiais Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 895)
καπηλείας · kapēleias Plato, Laws 643
καπηλεία · kapēleia Plato, Laws 918

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