μισθός, ὁ,
hire, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥητῷ for fixed wages, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.445 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μισθοῖο τέλος the end of our hired service,[[ [prev. work] 450; μισθὸς.. εἰρημένος ἄρκιος ἔστω 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 370; θητεύειν ἐπὶ μισθῷ παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.137, compare 5.65; πείθειν ἐπὶ μ. [prev. author] 8.4; μισθοῦ ἕνεκα ὑπηρετεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.14: _genitive_ μισθοῦ] Refs 8th c.BC+] for hire, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 560, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.124, 7.25, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.94; μ. στρατεύεσθαι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.109.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μισθὸν δοῦναι, διδόναι, πορίζειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 609, “HF” 19, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1019 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡς ἐς ἑξήκοντα ναῦς μηνὸς μισθόν as a month's pay, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.8; μισθοὺς μεγάλους ἔφερον 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 434, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 66; μ. λαβεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.117, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 593, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.83; δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 16; φέρεσθαι [prev. author] “Oec.” 1.4 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; μ. πράττεσθαι exact it, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).29, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325b; μ. αἰτεῖν [prev. author] “R.” 345e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hire, μ. ὄνων, πλοίου, [[ “PAmh.” 2.126.11, 37. ] Refs]
__b especially at Athens, pay, allowance for public service, μ. δικαστικός [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 299; μ. ἐκκλησιαστικός 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τῆς πρυτανείας μ. pay received during the prytany, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.123. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]