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ἐπικαρπ-ία , ἡ,
A.produce, crop, ἡ ἐπέτειος ἐ. Pl.Lg.955d, cf. IG12.328.11, Rev.Ét.Gr.10.29 (Thespiae, iii B.C.).
2.. harvest-rights, Tab.Heracl.1.108, BGU101.19 (ii A.D.); usufruct, αἱ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἐ. D.H.3.58.
3.. revenue from property, Leg.Gort.7.33; τὰς ἐκ ταύτης (sc. τῆς ὠνῆς᾿ ἐπικαρπίας . . ἐνενήκοντα μνᾶς ἐκλέξας having collected 90 minae as the revenue from this tax, And.1.92.
4. profit, Arist.Pol.1258b24; αἱ ἐ. the profits, opp. the principal (τὰ ἀρχαῖα), D.27.50; “ἐπικαρπίας λαμβάνειν” Isoc.8.125; γῆθεν ἀναμένοντι τὴν ἐ. looking to the land for his profits, Com.Adesp.133.3; ἡ ἐ. τῶν ἁδρῶν the profits on the full-grown animals, Antiph.20.
5.. tithe paid for the pasturage of cattle, Arist.Oec.1346a3.
6.. metaph., “παρρησίας ἐπικαρπίαι” D.C.39.10; “κινδύνων” Onos.34.4; “τοῦ πόνου” Ael. NA2.8.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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