The corpus record

μισθοφορ-ά

misthophora · ἡ

receipt of wages

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Where it lives

Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys 1 · 13.35/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
Third Olynthiac 1 · 4.25/10k
Athenian Constitution 3 · 1.84/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
Panathenaicus 1 · 0.63/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

μισθοφορ-ά · misthophor-a — LSJ

receipt of wages, wages received, hire, pay

receipt of wages or wages received, hire, pay, esp. of soldiers, Ar. Eq. 807, Th. 6.24, 8.45, Lys. 27.1, Isoc. Ep. 2.9, D. 3.34, etc.; ἐπὶ τᾶ μισθοφόρα (dat.) IG ΙΙ(4).1064b4 (Aeol., found at Delos; unless neut. pl.); of the dicasts, Arist. Ath. 27.4: pl., D.S. 17.64: generally, ἐπὶ μισθοφορᾷ PLond. 2.328.19 (ii A.D.), BGU 762.20 (ii A.D.).

In the wild

μισθοφορᾷ · misthophorai Aristophanes, Knights 805 (DIORISIS sentence 582)
μισθοφορὰν · misthophoran Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..27 (DIORISIS sentence 340)
μισθοφορᾶς · misthophoras Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..30 (DIORISIS sentence 378)
μισθοφορῶν · misthophorōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..49 (DIORISIS sentence 581)
μισθοφοράν · misthophoran Aristotle, Politics 1304b (DIORISIS sentence 1920)
μισθοφορὰν · misthophoran Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 34 (DIORISIS sentence 121)

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