κάτεργος
From LSJ
ἰχθύς ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὄζειν ἄρχεται → the fish stinks from the head, a fish rots from the head down, the fish rots from the head down, fish begin to stink at the head, the fish stinks first at the head, corruption starts at the top, the rot starts at the top
English (LSJ)
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A worked, cultivated, χώρα Thphr.CP5.14.5. II κάτεργον, τό, wages, PHib.1.119 (iii B.C.), PRev.Laws45.8 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.472.6 (iii B.C.), etc.; labour-costs, τὸ εἰς τὴν πλίνθον κ. γεινόμενον PSI4.365.4 (iii B.C.), cf. PLille1.50 (iii B.C.); εἰς κ. τῆς σκηνῆς for the service of the tabernacle, LXX Ex.30.16; εἰς πάντα τὰ κ. αὐτῆς ib.35.21.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1397] bearbeitet, bes. vom Lande, bestellt, Theophr.; τὸ κάτεργον, das Werk, LXX.
