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ὑπηρετ-ικός

uperetikos

menial, of the hired soldiery, of

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ὑπηρετ-ικός · hypēret-ikos — LSJ

menial, of the hired soldiery

menial, ἐν ὑ. μοίρᾳ τινί Pl. Plt. 290c; ὅπλα ὑ. the arms of the hired soldiery, X. Cyr. 2.1.18.

2 of, for service, doing service, of public servants, serviceable

of or for service, doing service, τὸ μὲν -ώτατον . . τῷ σώματι, τὸ δὲ ἀρχικώτατον Pl. Lg. 942e; ἐπιμέλειαι ὑ. of public servants, Arist. Pol. 1299a24; ἡ θεοῖς ὑ. (sc. τέχνη) Pl. Euthphr. 13e; ἡ ἰατροῖς ὑ. εἰς τίνος ἔργου ἀπεργασίαν τυγχάνει οὖσα ὑ.; ib.d; serviceable, τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς ἔργοις -ώτατον . . τὸ θερμόν ἐστιν Arist. PA 52b10.

3 subordinate

opp. ἀρχικός, subordinate, Id. Pol. 1260a23, cf. 1256a5; ἀγαθά, opp. προηγούμενα, Arr. Epict. 2.8.6, cf. Iamb. Myst. 1.5.

4 attending on, dispatch-boat, tender

ὑ. κέλης a cock-boat, attending on a larger vessel, X. HG 1.6.36; -κόν, τό (sc. πλοῖον), dispatch-boat, tender, D. 50.46, Decr. ap. eund. 18.106; in full, ὑ. [πλοῖον] restd. in SIG 1053.12 (Samothrace, i B. C.); ὑ. νῆες D.S. 13.14; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑ. Aeschin. 2.73.

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