The corpus record

τελών-ης

telones · ὁ

farmer, collector of tolls, customs, taxes

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Where it lives

Luke 10 · 5.19/10k
Matthew 8 · 4.46/10k
Mark 3 · 2.73/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

τελών-ης · telōn-ēs — LSJ

farmer, collector of tolls, customs, taxes

farmer or collector of tolls, customs, or taxes, Ar. Eq. 248 (troch.), Aeschin. 1.119, Herod. 6.64, PCair.Zen. 31.20 (iii B.C.), UPZ 113.8 (ii B.C.), Aristocl. ap. Eus. PE 15.2, etc.: freq. with a sense of reproach, πάντες τελῶναι, πάντες εἰσὶν ἅρπαγες, of the Oropians, Xeno 1; ἐφʼ οἷς ἂν καὶ τελώνης σεμνυνθείη βάναυσος Plb. 12.13.9, cf. Gal. 8.587, 9.804; = Lat. publicanus, Ev.Matt. 5.46, al.; πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ τ. Asp. in EN 102.21.

In the wild

τελώναις · telōnais Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..52 (DIORISIS sentence 614)
τελωνῶν · telōnōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..52 (DIORISIS sentence 614)
τελώνης · telōnēs Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
τελώνης · telōnēs Epictetus, Discourses 3.15 (DIORISIS sentence 4569)
τελώνης · telōnēs Epictetus, Enchiridion 29 (DIORISIS sentence 213)
τελῶναι · telōnai New Testament, Luke 15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 791)

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Where it came from

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