ἔρῑθος, ὁ, ἡ,
day-labourer, hired servant; of mowers or reapers, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.550, 560 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later ἔριθοι, αἱ, spinsters and weavers, workers in wool (probably because popularly derived from ἔριον), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.45, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.80; ἐρίων ἔριθοι “PHib.” 1.121.34 (3rd c.BC) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of spiders, πάντα δ᾽ ἐρίθων ἀραχνᾶν βρίθει [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 286, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, servant, minister, τλήμων γαστρὸς ἔριθος, = crepitus ventris, [[ hymnus ad Mercurium 296 ] Refs]; Ἔρις..Νίκης κασιγνήτη καὶ ἔ. Timo 21.2; ὕπνον νυκτὸς ἔ. Epic.Anon.in [[ “BKT” 5(1)p. 70. ] Refs]