[Meaning] payments, which someone gives for a body, dead or alive.[1] Thus
Solon in [his] laws [sc. uses the word].[2]
*)/apoina: lu/tra, a(\ di/dwsi/ tis u(pe\r fo/nou h)\ sw/matos. ou(/tws *so/lwn e)n no/mois.
Same or similar material in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.13, where the (neuter plural) headword occurs.
As well as numerous other insrances in the
Iliad, see also e.g.
Herodotus 6.79.1, and generally LSJ s.v., and W.K. Pritchett,
The Greek State at War V (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1991) 245-297.
[1] Literally "for a murder or a body"; the latter has to be alive if the distinction is to make any sense.
[2]
Solon fr. 12 Ruschenbusch.
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