The corpus record

μισθαρν-έω

mistharneo

work, serve for hire, receive pay

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Where it lives

Fourth Philippic 2 · 4.52/10k
Against Neaera 3 · 3.3/10k
Helen 1 · 2.68/10k
On the Crown 4 · 2.06/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
On the False Embassy 2 · 0.87/10k
Against Timocrates 1 · 0.69/10k
Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μισθαρν-έω · mistharn-eō — LSJ

work, serve for hire, receive pay, quaestum corpore facere

work or serve for hire, ὅσοι μισθαρνοῦντες ἤνυσαν τάδε S. Ant. 302, cf. Hp. Ep. 11, Pl. R. 346b, D. 18.49; τῶν βαναύσων καὶ μισθαρνούντων Arist. Pol. 1296b29; οἱ μισθαρνοῦντες τῶν ῥητόρων Phld. Rh. 2.56 S.; ὁ -αρνῶν ὄχλος Plu. Cat. Mi. 44; μ. παρά τινος receive pay from . . , D. 18.236; esp. of prostitution, τῷ σώματι μ. quaestum corpore facere, Id. 59.20, cf. Aeschin. l.c., PMagd. 14.3 (iii B. C.).

In the wild

μισθαρνούντων · mistharnountōn Aristotle, Politics 1296b (DIORISIS sentence 1660)
μισθαρνοῦσα · mistharnousa Demosthenes, Against Neaera speaker.20 (DIORISIS sentence 47)
ἐμισθάρνει · emistharnei Demosthenes, Against Neaera speaker.23 (DIORISIS sentence 53)
μισθαρνουσῶν · mistharnousōn Demosthenes, Against Neaera speaker.28 (DIORISIS sentence 69)
μισθαρνεῖν · mistharnein Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 200 (DIORISIS sentence 678)
μισθαρνοῦσι · mistharnousi Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 19 (DIORISIS sentence 51)

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