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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: eleutherios 2: euparrêsiastos 3: gametê 4: panakêdês 5: oikistikos
Latin1: matronalis 2: vacatio 3: anus 4: matrona 5: nurus
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eleutheros, a, on (os, on Aesch. Ag. 328, Eur. El. 868): later elautheros BCH22.76(Delph.); Elean eleutharos Schwyzer416.3:--

  • free, Hom. has the word only in Il. in two phrases, eleutheron êmar the day of freedom, i.e.freedom, Hom. Il. 6.455, au=Hom. Il. 16.831, al.; and krêtêr eleutheros the cup drunk to freedom, au=Hom. Il. 6.528; e. piousan oinon apothanein Xenarch.5 codd. Ath. (fort. -rion, cf. eleutherios I.2); of persons, Alc.Supp.25.11, Hdt. 1.6, Aesch. PB 50, Soph. Aj. 1020, Thuc. 8.15, etc.: Comp., Xen. Cyrop. 8.3.21: Sup., IDEM=Xen. Hiero 1.16; to e. freedom, Hdt au=Xen. Hiero 7.103, etc.; touleutheron Eur. Supp. 438: c.gen., free or freed from a thing, phonou, pêmatôn, phobou, Aesch. Eum. 603 codd., ti=Aesch. Lib. 1060, Eur. Hec. 869; aitias Men.Sam.272; exô aitias e. Soph. Ant. 445; e. ap' allêlôn independent, Xen. Cyrop. 3.2.23, Plat. Laws 832d.

    b. eleuthera, hê, married woman, Ath.13.571d; wife, POxy. 1872.8(v/vi A.D.); but, freedwoman, IG14.2490(Vienne).

    c. free, of cities, in Roman Law, BGU316.3 (iv A.D.).

    2. of things, free, open to all, agora     Xen. Cyrop. 1.2.3; e. phulakê,= Lat. libera custodia, D.S. 4.46; periôpê Ael.NA 15.5; unencumbered, of property, Dem. 35.21, IG 9(1).32.10 (Stiris), SIG364.36 (Ephesus, iii B.C.).

    3. eleutheron einai tini, c. inf., legally permissible, open to . ., IBID=au=SIG 45.42 (Halic., v B.C.).

    II.     = eleutherios , fit for a freeman, free, frank, phrên Pind. P. 2.57; eleutherôterê hupokrisis Hdt. 1.116; eleuthra bazein Aesch. Pers. 593 (lyr.); ô mêden hugies mêd' e. phronôn Soph. Phil. 1006; doulê men, eirêken d' e. logon IDEM=Soph. Trach. 63, cf.ti=Soph. El. 1256; phronêmata Plat. Rep. 567a; basanoi e. tortures such as might be used to a freeman, IDEM=Plat. Laws 946c (so phasgana E. Fr.495.38); to e. Plat. Menex. 245c: freq. in Adv. -rôs, eipein Hdt. 5.93, al.; chairein . . kai gelan e. Soph. El. 1300; tethrammenous Isoc. 7.43 codd. (fort. -eriôs); paideutheis e. Aeschin. 3.154 codd. (fort. -eriôs); e. douleue, doulos ouk esei Men.857; eleutheroi eleutherôs free and like free men, Plat. Laws 919e. (Cf. Lat. līber, fr. Ital. *loufero-(cf. Osc. ti=Pl. Luvfreis 'Liberi'), I.-E. (e)leudh-ero-: the connexion with Slav. liud, OHG. liut, etc. 'people' is doubtful.)