ὀψώνιον

ὀψώνιον, 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 B. C.); ἵνα ἡμῖν ὀ. προστεθῇ καὶ σιτάριον ib. 49.4 (iii B. C.); μετρήματα καὶ ὀ. corn- and money-payments, UPZ 14.26 (ii B. C.); φυλακιτῶν PPetr. 3 p.230 (iii B. C.); of a bank clerk, PCair.Zen. 342.6 (iii B. C.): distd. from γραμματικόν (bonus on turnover), PStrassb. 105.4 (iii B. C.); χωρὶς ὀψωνίων, of unsalaried services, Inscr.Prien. 121.34 (i B. C.).
• • • 2 a policemanʼs pay, PLille 25.55 (iii B. C.), PFay. 302 (ii B. C.), IG 9(2).1109.27 (Thess., ii/i B. C.); freq. a soldierʼs pay, PStrassb. 103.16 (iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank 6.7 (ii B. C.), Plb. 6.39.12: so in pl., pay of an army, Rev.Ét.Anc. 33.8 (Theangela, iv/iii B. C.), OGI 229.106 (iii B. C.), SIG 410.19 (iii B. C.), 581.34 (ii/i B. C.), Plb. 1.67.1, 3.25.4, LXX 1 Ma. 3.28, Aristeas 22.
    • 3 allowance paid to a victorious athlete, PRyl. 153.25 (ii A. D.), CPHerm. 54.7, al. (iii A. D.); allowance or scholarship paid to a music-student, προδοῦναί μοι τὸ ὀ. καὶ τὸ κατὰ μῆνα ἀνάλωμα PCair.Zen. 440.6 (iii B. C.); allowance to a son or daughter, BGU 665 ii 15 (i A. D.), POxy. 898.31 (ii A. D.); to a slave, distd. from ἱματις μός, PCair.Zen. 28.6, 100.14 (iii B. C.).
    • 4 wages of labour, τὰ σώματα ἐνοχλεῖ ἡμᾶς τὰ ὀ. ἀπαιτοῦντα ib. 43.2, cf. 27.2, al., PPetr. 2 p.113 (all iii B. C.), POxy. 974 (iii A. D.); ἀρτάβην κριθῆς εἰς λόγον ὀψωνίων PTeb. 420.24 (iii A. D.): metaph., ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας the wages of sin, Ep.Rom. 6.23.
    • 5 a magicianʼs fee, PMag.Par. 1.2454.
    • 6 gratuity to tax-farmers, UPZ 112v3 (pl.).
    • 7 = ὄψον I.1 (cf. Lat. obsonium), τῶν ἀνηλωμάτων πάντων σίτου καὶ ὀψωνίων ib. 91.13 (ii B. C.).—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.

ὀψώνιον, 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}

ὀψώνιον, ου, τό, ὀψώνης

• provisions or provision-money, Lat. obsonium, supplies and pay for an army, Polyb.: —metaph., ὀψώνια ἁμαρτίας the wages of sin, NTest.