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κᾰπηλ-ικός

kapelikos

of, for a, mercenary

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Where it lives

Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Politics 5 · 0.77/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant

κᾰπηλ-ικός · kapēl-ikos — LSJ

of, for a, mercenary, camp-followers, sutlers, tax on retail-traders

of or for a κάπηλος, ζυγόν Dinol. 2 (fort. καπανικόν) ; ἀργύρωμα IG ΙΙ(2).110 (Delos, iii B.C.), cf. 111; mercenary, ἦθος M.Ant. 4.28; σοφιστής Poll. 4.48; ἡ -ική (sc. τέχνη), = καπηλεία, Pl. Sph. 223d, Arist. Pol. 1257a18: καπηλικόν, τό, camp-followers, sutlers of an army, Arr. Tact. 2.1; but also, tax on retail-traders, BGU 1237 (iii/ii B.C.).

2 like a petty trader, knavish, cozening, vamped up for sale, in a mercenary spirit

like a petty trader, knavish, cozening, κ. μέτρα φιλεῦσα AP 9.229 (Marc. Arg.); ὕθλος Porph. Chr. 49. Adv. -κῶς, ἔχειν to be vamped up for sale, Ar. Pl. 1063; τὰ πράγματα κ. διανέμων Plu. Isid. 2.369c; in a mercenary spirit, Gal. 14.216: Comp. -ώτερον Numen. ap. Eus. PE 14.8.

In the wild

καπηλικάςʼ · kapēlikasʼ Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1
καπηλική · kapēlikē Aristotle, Politics 1257a (DIORISIS sentence 197)
καπηλικόν · kapēlikon Aristotle, Politics 1257b (DIORISIS sentence 208)
καπηλικήν · kapēlikēn Aristotle, Politics 1257b (DIORISIS sentence 210)
καπηλική · kapēlikē Aristotle, Politics 1257b (DIORISIS sentence 214)
καπηλικῆς · kapēlikēs Aristotle, Politics 1258a (DIORISIS sentence 244)

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