ἀργύριον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[small coin]], [[piece of money]], Ar.''Fr.''262, X.''Oec.''19.16, etc.: pl. (v. Poll.9.89), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Birds|Av.]]''600, Eup.155, X.l.c.: then,<br><span class="bld">2</span> collectively, [[money]], Ar.''Pl.''156,158, al.; <b class="b3">ἀργύριον ῥητόν</b> a [[fixed]] [[sum]], Th.2.70; <b class="b3">εἰς ἀργύριον λογισθέντα</b> [[calculate]]d in our [[money]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''3.1.33; <b class="b3">ἀργύριον καθαρόν</b> '[[hard]] [[cash]]', Theoc.15.36: in Com. with Art., [[τἀργύριον]] [[the money]], [[the cash]], [[δανείζεσθαι]] Ar.''Nu.''756; [[ἀπαιτεῖν]] ib.1247; [[κατατιθέναι]] Antiph.124.14, etc.; so τἀργύρια [[καταβάλλειν]] Th.1.27, etc.<br><span class="bld">II</span> = [[ἄργυρος]], [[silver]], πεντηκοσίας μνέας ἀργυρίου [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.13; <b class="b3">ἀργύριον ἐπίσημον</b> and ἀργύριον ἄσημον Th.2.13; χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον Pl.''Alc.''1.122e; ἀργυρίου [[ἄνθος]] = [[lead oxide]], Hp.''Nat.Mul.''33.