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ἐπίχειρον , τό, (χείρ)
A.arm, LXX Je.31 (48).25.
II. in pl., ἐπίχειρα , τά, prop. wages of manual labour : hence, wages, pay,
1. of reward, Ar.V.581, Trag.Adesp.116, Theoc.Ep.18.8 ; “ἀρετῆς ἐ.” Pl. R.608c ; ironically in D.Ep.3.38, Plb.8.12.5, etc.: rarely in sg., Id.38.3.2.
2. more freq. of punishment, “τοιαῦτα τῆς ὑψηγόρου γλώσσης.. τἀπίχειρα γίγνεται” A.Pr.321, cf. Antipho 1.20, Arr.Epict.3.24.24, Ph.1.512, etc.; “τῆς προπετείας πικρὰ κομίζονται τἀ.” Phld.Ir.p.32 W.; ξιφέων ἐ. λαχοῦσα the wages of the sword, i.e. slaughter by it, S.Ant.820 (lyr.). (Sts. written ἐπιχείρια in codd., vulg. in Hp. Praec.1.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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