ου (τὸ) approvisionnement de vivres ou d’argent, MÉN. 4, 320 Meineke ; particul. solde en nature ou en argent à une armée, POL. 1, 67, 1, etc. ; au pl. POL. 3, 25, 4 ; fig. NT. Rom. 6, 24.

Étym. ὀψωνία.

τό, (< ὄψον, ὠνέομαι) salary, reckoned in money, τό τε ὀ. καὶ σιτομετρίαν καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον PCair. Zen. 507.5, cf. 421.6, 483.14, 498.5 (all iii BC); ἵνα ἡμῖν ὀ. προστεθῇ καὶ σιτάριον ib. 49.4 (iii BC); μετρήματα καὶ ὀ. corn- and money-payments, UPZ 14.26 (ii BC); φυλακιτῶν PPetr. 3 p. 230 (iii BC); of a bank clerk, PCair. Zen. 342.6 (iii BC); distd. from γραμματικόν (bonus on turnover), PStrassb. 105.4 (iii BC); χωρὶς ὀψωνίων, of unsalaried services, Inscr.Prien. 121.34 (i BC). a policeman΄s pay, PLille 25.55 (iii BC), PFay. 302 (ii BC), IG 9(2).1109.27 (Thess., ii/i BC); freq. a soldier΄s pay, PStrassb. 103.16 (iii BC), PTheb. Bank 6.7 (ii BC), Plb. 6.39.12; so in pl., pay of an army, Rev.Ét.Anc. 33.8 (Theangela, iv/iii BC), OGI 229.106 (iii BC), SIG 410.19 (iii BC), 581.34 (ii/i BC), Plb. 1.67.1, 3.25.4, LXX 1 Ma. 3.28, Aristeas 22.
allowance paid to a victorious athlete, PRyl. 153.25 (ii AD), CPHerm. 54.7, al. (iii AD); allowance or scholarship paid to a music-student, προδοῦναί μοι τὸ ὀ. καὶ τὸ κατὰ μῆνα ἀνάλωμα PCair. Zen. 440.6 (iii BC); allowance to a son or daughter, BGU 665 ii 15 (i AD), POxy. 898.31 (ii AD); to a slave, distd. from ἱματις μός, PCair. Zen. 28.6, 100.14 (iii BC).
wages of labour, τὰ σώματα ἐνοχλεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰ ὀ. ἀπαιτοῦντα ib. 43.2, cf. 27.2, al., PPetr. 2 p. 113 (all iii BC), POxy. 974 (iii AD); ἀρτάβην κριθῆς εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων PTeb. 420.24 (iii AD); metaph, ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας the wages of sin, Ep. Rom. 6.23. a magician΄s fee, PMagPar. 1.2454.
gratuity to tax-farmers, UPZ 112v3 (pl.). = ὄψον 1.1 (cf. Lat. obsonium), τῶν ἀνηλωμάτων πάντων σίτου καὶ ὀψωνίων ib. 91.13 (ii BC). — The word is rejected by Phryn. 393. First used by Men. 1051 (no context); ᾔτησεν εἰς ὀ. τριώβολον Thugen. 2. Glossed ὀψωνία, also (in pl.) κέρδη, χαρίσματα, by Phot.

τό, = ὀψωνία, u. das Eingekaufte selbst. – Später übh. Kost, Proviant, Sold für ein Heer, wie ὀψωνιασμός, Pol. 6.39.12 ; im plur., 1.67.1 ; NT ; aber vgl. Lobeck Phryn. 420. {neugr. τα ψώνια}

ὄψώνιον, -ου, τό
(< ὀψον- see: ὀψάριον— and ὠνέομαι), [in LXX: I Est.4:56, 1Ma.3:28 1Mac 14:32 * ;]
__1. provisions, provision-money, soldiers' pay: Luk.3:14, 1Co.9:7.
__2. Generally, wages, hire: 2Co.11:8; ὄ. τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Rom.6:23 (see Deiss, BS, 148, 266).†
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