Ἀπόμισθος
dismissed without pay
Translated by David Whitehead8 Oct 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] unpaid - when someone has done a job for pay and is sent away unpaid. The word occurs in Lysias in the speech In reply to Callicles.1
But [plural]a)po/misqoi in Demosthenes [means] those not drawing pay.2
But [plural]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀπόμισθος· ἄμισθος, ὁ μισθοῦ ἔργον τι διαπραξάμενος καὶ ἄμισθος ἀφειμένος. κεῖται ἡ λέξις παρὰ Λυσίᾳ ἐν τῷ πρὸς Καλλικλέα. Ἀπόμισθοι δὲ παρὰ Δημοσθένει, οἱ μισθὸν μὴ λαβόντες.