δοῦλος
__A, Cretan dialect δῶλος [[ “Leg.Gort.” 1.1, +others] Refs], ὁ:—properly born bondman or slave, opposed to one made a slave, τὰ ἀνδράποδα πάντα καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.28, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 330 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: then, generally, bondman, slave, opposed to δεσπότης (which see): not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], who twice has feminine δούλη, ἡ, bondwoman, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.409, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.12, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1326, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.1.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 395e, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of Persians and other nations subject to a despot, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὔ τινος δοῦλοι κέκληνται, of the Greeks, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 242: _metaphorically_, χρημάτων δ.] Refs 4th c.BC+] slaves to money, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 865; so γνάθου δ. [prev. author] “fragment” 282.5; τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λιχνειῶν, λαγνειῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.22, compare “Mem.” 1.3.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II adjective (not in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)] Refs 4th c.BC+], δοῦλος, η, ον, slavish, servile, subject, δ. πόλις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 917, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.29; γνώμαισι δούλαις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 53; δ. ἔχειν βίον [prev. work] 302 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῶμα δ., opposed to νοῦς ἐλεύθερος, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 940; τοὺς τρόπους δούλους παρασχεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 877 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. θάνατος, ζυγόν, πούς, [[ [prev. author] “Or.” 1170, “Tr.” 678, 507; δ. καὶ τυραννουμένη πόλις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 577d; δ. ἡδοναί, ={δουλοπρεπεῖς}, [prev. work] 587c, etc.: _comparative_ δουλότερος] Refs 5th c.BC+] more enslaved, Αἴγυπτον δ. ποιεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]