hired service, service
hired service, service, S. OT 1029, Isoc. 14.48: in pl., ib. 11.38, D.H. 2.19.
2 servility, sycophancy
servility, sycophancy, c. gen., θ. ὄχλων ἢ δυναστῶν Epicur. Sent.Vat. 67.
The corpus record
θητ-εία
theteia · ἡ
hired service, service
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Where it lives
- Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θητείας · thēteias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 512)
- θητείᾳ · thēteiai Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1029
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.