ἐλεύθερος, α, ον
(ος, ον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 328, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 868)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: later ἐλαύθερος [[ “BCH” 22.76(Delph.)] Refs]; Elean ἐλεύθαρος [[ “Schwyzer” 416.3] Refs]:— free, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] has the word only in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” in two phrases, ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ] Refs 8th c.BC+] the day of freedom, i.e.freedom, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.455, 16.831, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and κρητὴρ ἐλεύθερος the cup drunk to freedom,[[ 6.528; ἐ. πιοῦσαν οἶνον ἀποθανεῖν 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 5 codices 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus (perhaps -ριον,compare ἐλευθέριος 1.2) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of persons, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 25.11, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.6, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 50, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1020, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.15, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]: comparative, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative, [[ [prev. author] “Hier.” 1.16 ] Refs]; τὸ ἐ. freedom, Hdt [[ 7.103 ] Refs], etc.; τοὐλεύθερον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 438 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.genitive, free or freed from a thing, φόνου, πημάτων, φόβου, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 603 codices, “Ch.” 1060, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 869; αἰτίας 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 272 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔξω αἰτίας ἐ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 445 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων independent, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 832d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b ἐλευθέρα, ἡ, married woman, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.571d ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; wife, [[ POxy. 1872.8(5th-6th c.AD)] Refs 5th c.AD+]; but, freedwoman, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 14.2490 (from Vienne). ] Refs]