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ἀνδράποδον

andrapodon

one taken in war and sold as a slave

Appears 10 times across Plato's dialogues.

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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, Hdt. 3.125,129,5.31, etc.: orig. dist. from δοῦλος, ὅσοι δὲ ἦσαν ξεῖνοί τε καὶ δοῦλοι . . ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ποιεύμενος εἶχε Id. 3.125; τὰ ἀ. πάντα, καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα Th. 8.28; τὰ ἀ. τὰ δοῦλα πάντα ἀπέδοτο X. HG 1.6.15. II. low fellow, ‘creature’, Pl. Grg. 483b, Thg. 130b, X. Mem. 4.2.39, D.Chr. 31.109; of a female slave, Pherecr. 16 D. III. as a playful mode of address, Arr. Epict. 1.4.14, al.—Hom., Il. 7.475, has Ep.dat.pl. ἀνδραπόδεσσι (as if from ἀνδράπους), where Aristarch. proposed to read ἀνδραπόδοισι; but it is almost certain that the word was post-Homeric, and the line was rejected on that account by Zenod. and Ar.Byz. (Orig. pl.; formed on the analogy of τετράποδα, cf. τετραπόδων πάντων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων Foed.Delph.Pell. 1.B 7. Sg. in X. Ath. 1.18, etc.)
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