ἀνδράποδον
andrapodon
one taken in war and sold as a slave
Appears 13 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀνδράποδον [δρᾰ], τό, A. one taken in war and sold as a slave, whether originally slave or free, captive, 3.125,129,5.31, etc.: orig. dist. from δοῦλος, ὅσοι δὲ ἦσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ δοῦλοι . . ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε 3.125; τὰ ἀ. πάντα, καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα 8.28; τὰ ἀ. τὰ δοῦλα πάντα ἀπέδοτο HG 1.6.15. II. low fellow, ‘creature’, Grg. 483b, Thg. 130b, Mem. 4.2.39, 31.109; of a female slave, 16 III. as a playful mode of address, Epict. 1.4.14, al.—, Il. 7.475, has Ep.dat.pl. ἀνδραπόδεσσι (as if from ἀνδράπους), where proposed to read ἀνδραπόδοισι; but it is almost certain that the word was post-Homeric, and the line was rejected on that account by and (Orig. pl.; formed on the analogy of τετράποδα, cf. τετραπόδων πάντων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων Foed.Delph.Pell. 1.B 7. Sg. in Ath. 1.18, etc.)
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