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μετάβολ-ος

metabolos

changeable

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What it meant

μετάβολ-ος · metabol-os — LSJ

changeable

changeable, Plu. Def.orac. 2.428b, Ptol. Tetr. 96.

II huckster, retail dealer, retail

as Subst., = μεταβολεύς I, huckster, retail dealer, opp. ἔμπορος, GDI iv p.876 (Chios, prob. from Erythrae, iv B. C.), cf. PRev.Laws 48.3 (iii B. C.), LXX Is. 23.2, 3, PTeb. 116.20 (ii B. C.), Sch. Ar. Pax 446; τοὶ μ. τοὶ ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν SIG 1000.21 (Cos, i B. C.): as Adj., ἱματιοπῶλαι μ. retail clothes-dealers, OGI 629.83 (Palmyra, ii A. D.); μ. ἁλιεῖς Ostr. 1449 (ii A. D.).

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