δοῦλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), Cret. [[δῶλος]] <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>1.1, al., ὁ:—prop. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[born]] [[bondman]] or [[born slave]], opp. [[one]] made a [[slave]], τὰ ἀνδράποδα πάντα καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα <span class="bibl">Th.8.28</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>330</span>: then, generally, [[bondman]], [[slave]], opp. [[δεσπότης]] (q. v.): not in Hom., who twice has fem. [[δούλη]], ἡ, [[bondwoman]], <span class="bibl">Il.3.409</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.4.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1326</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>5.1.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 395e</span>, etc.: freq. of Persians and other nations subject to a [[despot]], Hdt., etc.; <b class="b3">οὔ τινος δοῦλοι κέκληνται</b>, of the [[Greeks]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>242</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">χρημάτων δοῦλος</b> [[slave]] to [[money]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>865</span>; so [[γνάθος|γνάθου]] τε δοῦλος [[νηδύς|νηδύος]] θ' ἡσσημένος = [[slave]] to his [[jaw]]s and [[belly]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 282.5</span>; τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων <span class="bibl">Th.3.38</span>; λιχνειῶν, λαγνειῶν, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>1.22</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mem.</span>1.3.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Adj. (not in A.), [[δοῦλος]], [[δοῦλη]], [[δοῦλον]], [[slavish]], [[servile]], [[subject]], δ. [[πόλις]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>917</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>4.2.29</span>; γνώμαισι δούλαις <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>53</span>; <b class="b3">δοῦλον ἔχειν βίον</b> ib.<span class="bibl">302</span>; [[σῶμα]] δοῦλον, opp. [[νοῦς]] [[ἐλεύθερος]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>940</span>; τοὺς τρόπους δούλους [[παρασχεῖν]] <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>877</span>; δοῦλος [[θάνατος]], [[ζυγόν]], [[πούς]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Or.</span> 1170</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>678</span>,<span class="bibl">507</span>; δ. καὶ τυραννουμένη [[πόλις]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>577d</span>; <b class="b3">δοῦλαι ἡδοναί</b> = [[δουλοπρεπής|δουλοπρεπεῖς]], ib.<span class="bibl">587c</span>, etc.: Comp. [[δουλότερος]] = [[more enslaved]], Αἴγυπτον δ. [[ποιεῖν]] <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[τὸ δοῦλον]] = [[οἱ δοῦλοι]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>983</span>, etc.; also, [[slavery]], a [[slavish]] [[life]], ib.<span class="bibl">556</span> (troch.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[ancillary]], δ. ἐπιστῆμαι <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Metaph.</span>996b11</span>.</span><br />(B)· ἡ [[οἰκία]] ἢ τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συνέλευσιν τῶν γυναικῶν, Hsch.; cf. [[δωλοδομεῖς]], [[δωλέννετος]].