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- α1384Ἁλώνητονsalt-bought[Meaning] that which is purchased by salt. Equivalent to barbarous. Also [there is] a proverb: 'a salt-bought slave'. In reference to those worthy of no account; inasmuch as merchants conveying salt inland used to …
- α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… because it was vulgar. But many of the slaves were barbarians and Arabians, about whom a proverb is said: "he plays the pipe for a drachma, but he stops for four." Also "Arabian piper", …