ἀνδράποδον [δρᾰ],τό,
A. one taken in war and sold as a slave,whether originally slave or free,captive,
Hdt. 3.125 , 129 , 5.31 , etc.: orig. dist. from δοῦλος, ὅσοι δὲ ἦσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ δοῦλοι . . ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε
Id. 3.125
; τὰ ἀ. πάντα, καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα
Th. 8.28
; τὰ ἀ. τὰ δοῦλα πάντα ἀπέδοτο
X. HG 1.6.15
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II. low fellow,'creature', Pl. Grg. 483b , Thg. 130b , X. Mem. 4.2.39 , D.Chr. 31.109 ; of a female slave, Pherecr. 16
D.
III. as a playful mode of address, Arr. Epict. 1.4.14 , al.— Hom. , Il. 7.475 , has Ep. dat.pl.ἀνδραπόδεσσι(as if fromἀνδράπους), where Aristarch. proposed to readἀνδραπόδοισι; but it is almost certain that the word was post-Homeric, and the line was rejected on that account by Zenod. and Ar.Byz. (Orig. pl.; formed on the analogy ofτετράποδα,cf. τετραπόδων πάντων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων