Ἀλφάνει

[Meaning he/she/it] earns.¹ Menander in Children of the Same Father [writes]: "she whom, [it is] clear, no bridegroom is fetching."² Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "alas I was wretched that day, when the herald told me: this one's fetching a price."³ Eupolis in Taxiarchs [writes]: "won't one of the archers hurry and announce her, [to see] if she'll fetch a price."⁴ And the Poet [writes]: "who fetches a hundred-oxen price."⁵