κέρδος, εος, τό,
gain, profit, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.140, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐνόησεν ὅππως κ. ἔῃ how some advantage can be gained, what is best to be done, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.225; οὔ τοι τόδε κ. ἐγὼν ἔσσεσθαι ὀΐω ἡμῖν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.311, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποιέεσθαί τι ἐν κέρδεϊ, with infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.δ᾽, 6.13; κ. νομίσαι τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅτι.. [[ [prev. author] 3.33; ἤν τι.. δάσωνται κ. ἡγεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.43; ἐκ πονηροῦ πράγματος κ. λαβεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 697 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέγ᾽ ἐστὶ κ., ἢν.. [[ [prev. author] “Mon.” 359; πρὸς τὸ κ. βλέπειν [prev. work] 364 ] Refs]; participle, πᾶν κ. ἡγοῦ ζημιουμένη φυγῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 454 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἐστί μοι, with infinitive, τί δῆτ᾽ ἐμοὶ ζῆν κ.; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 747 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τί κ. ἦν αὐτῷ διαβάλλειν ἐμ; [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 8.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 607, 610 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, gains, profits, περιβαλλόμενος ἑωυτῷ κέρδεα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ δειλὰ (variant{δεινὰ}) κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 326; τὰ κ. μείζω φαίνεσθαι τῶν δεινῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.59; τὰ πονηρὰ κ. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 270:— κ. (_metaphorically_) opposed to ζημία (damage), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1132a12, (literal) opposed to ζημἱα (damages), [prev. work] 14; ζημίαν λαβεῖν ἄμεινόν ἐστιν ἢ κ. κακόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 807. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 desire of gain, κέρδει καὶ σοφία δέδεται [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.54; ἄνδρας τὸ κ. πολλάκις διώλεσεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 222; εἰς τὸ κ. λῆμ᾽ ἔχων ἀνειμένον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 3: _plural_, κερδῶν ἄθικτος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 704; ἐν τοῖς κέρδεσιν μόνον δέδορκε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 388; μὴ 'πὶ κέρδεσιν λέγων [prev. author] “Ant.” 1061, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1207 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, ἡμέτερα κ. τῶν σοφῶν (={ἡμῶν τῶν σ}.) you of whom we wise men make gain, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1202. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]