πολιτοκάπηλος
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], ὁ, jobber in public offices, Malch. ap. Suid. s.v. Ζήνων.
German (Pape)
[Seite 657] ὁ, der mit dem Staate, den Bürgern Handel treibt, Suid. v. Ζήνων.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
πολῑτοκάπηλος: [ᾰ], ὁ, ὁ ἐμπορευόμενος τὰς δημοσίας θέσεις, Σουΐδ. ἐν λ. Ζήνων.
Greek Monolingual
ὁ, Α
αυτός που εμπορεύεται τις δημόσιες θέσεις.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < πολίτης + κάπηλος (πρβλ. ανδροκάπηλος, σωματοκάπηλος)].
