Bible Lexicons

For the primary sense of this word ";wage,"; ";salary,"; cf. P Tebt II. 384.20 (A.D. 10) τέλους γερδίων καὶ τῶν τούτων μισθῶ [ν, ";weavers’ tax and wages,"; P Fay 91.23 (A.D. 99) τὸν ἡμερήσιον μισθόν, ";daily wage,"; P Lond 846.10 (A.D. 140) (= III. p. 131, Chrest. I. p. 382) ἀπ [όρου ] μου ὄ [ν ]τος καὶ μισθοῦ πορίζοντος τὸ ζῆν ἀπὸ τῆς γερδια [κ ]ῆς —petition of a weaver, who works for a wage (μισθοῦ), and has no means (πόρος) for discharging a public liturgy, P Oxy IV. 724.5 (A.D.155) where a slave is apprenticed to a shorthand-writer to be taught shorthand μισθοῦ τοῦ συμπεφωνημένου ";at a salary agreed upon"; of 120 silver drachmae, and P Fay 103.3 (iii/A.D.) μ ]ισθὸς τοῖς ἠρκάσι αὐτόν, ";pay for the bearers"; in connexion with funeral expenses. See also the temple inscr. at El-Kab Preisigke 158 Ἀνδρόμαχος Μακεδὼν ἀφίκετο πρὸς Ἀμενώθην χρηστὸν θεὸν μ [ι ]σθοῦ ἐργαζόμενος καὶ ἐμαλακίσθη καὶ ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶι ἐβοήθησε αὐθημερή.

The dim. μισθάριον occurs in the illiterate P Tebt II. 413.13 (ii/iii A.D.) ταῦτά σοι συναλάγη πέπμπε [ιν ] ἐκ τῶν μισταρίων ἀτῆς, ";it was arranged with you that these should be sent from her earnings"; (Edd.). A new compd. μισθοπρασία is found in P Lond 1164(h).6 (A.D. 212) (=III. p. 164), and is understood by the editors as denoting a sale under the terms of a lease (cf. EEF Arch. Rep. 1907–08, p. 57) : for μισθαποχή in the sense of μίσθωσις see P Gen I. 70.15 (A.D. 381) (= Chrest. I. p. 448 ἡ μισθαποχὴ κυρία καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα. For μισθοφόροι ἱππεῖς, ";mercenary cavalry";cf. P Grenf II. 31.5 (B.C. 104) (see Archiv ii. p. 155), and for the ";requisitioning";—ἐπὶ μισθοφορᾷ —of a camel to assist in transporting a porphyry pillar cf. P Lond 328.19 (A.D. 163) (=II. p. 75).

 

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