ὀψώνιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, (ὄψον, ὠνέομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[salary]], reckoned in money, τό τε ὀ. καὶ σιτομετρίαν καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>507.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">421.6</span>, <span class="bibl">483.14</span>, <span class="bibl">498.5</span> (all iii B. C.); <b class="b3">ἵνα ἡμῖν ὀ. προστεθῇ καὶ σιτάριον</b> ib.<span class="bibl">49.4</span> (iii B. C.); <b class="b3">μετρήματα καὶ ὀ</b>. corn- and [[money]]-payments, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>14.26</span> (ii B. C.); φυλακιτῶν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.230</span> (iii B. C.); of a bank clerk, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>342.6</span> (iii B. C.): distd. from [[γραμματικόν]] (bonus on turnover), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PStrassb.</span>105.4</span> (iii B. C.); <b class="b3">χωρὶς ὀψωνίων</b>, of un[[salaried]] services, <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span>121.34 (i B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> a policeman's [[pay]], PLille25.55 (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>302</span> (ii B. C.), <span class="title">IG</span>9(2).1109.27 (Thess., ii/i B. C.); freq. a soldier's [[pay]], PStrassb.103.16 (iii B. C.), <span class="title">PTheb.Bank</span>6.7 (ii B. C.), <span class="bibl">Plb.6.39.12</span>: so in pl., [[pay]] of an army, <b class="b2">Rev.Ét.Anc</b>.<span class="bibl">33.8</span> (Theangela, iv/iii B. C.), <span class="title">OGI</span> 229.106 (iii B. C.), <span class="title">SIG</span>410.19 (iii B. C.), 581.34 (ii/i B. C.), <span class="bibl">Plb.1.67.1</span>, <span class="bibl">3.25.4</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ma.</span>3.28</span>, Aristeas <span class="bibl">22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[allowance]] paid to a victorious athlete, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span> 153.25</span> (ii A. D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">CPHerm.</span>54.7</span>, al. (iii A. D.); [[allowance]] or [[scholarship]] paid to a music-student, προδοῦναί μοι τὸ ὀ. καὶ τὸ κατὰ μῆνα ἀνάλωμα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>440.6</span> (iii B. C.); [[allowance]] to a son or daughter, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>665 ii 15</span> (i A. D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>898.31</span> (ii A. D.); to a slave, distd. from <b class="b3">ἱματις μός</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>28.6</span>, <span class="bibl">100.14</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[wages]] of labour, <b class="b3">τὰ σώματα ἐνοχλεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰ ὀ. ἀπαιτοῦντα</b> ib. <span class="bibl">43.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">27.2</span>, al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.113</span> (all iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>974</span> (iii A. D.); ἀρτάβην κριθῆς εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>420.24</span> (iii A. D.): metaph., <b class="b3">ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας</b> the [[wages]] of sin, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Rom.</span>6.23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> a magician's [[fee]], PMag.Par.1.2454. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> [[gratuity]] to tax-farmers, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>112v3</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> = [[ὄψον]] <span class="bibl">1.1</span> (cf. Lat. [[obsonium]]), <b class="b3">τῶν ἀνηλωμάτων πάντων σίτου καὶ ὀψωνίων</b> ib.<span class="bibl">91.13</span> (ii B. C.).—The word is rejected by Phryn. 393. First used by <span class="bibl">Men.1051</span> (no context); ᾔτησεν εἰς ὀ. τριώβολον <span class="bibl">Thugen.2</span>. Glossed [[ὀψωνία]], also (in pl.) <b class="b3">κέρδη, χαρίσματα</b>, by Phot.</span>