μισθοφόροις (misthophorois)

μισθοφόροις is an Ancient Greek form of μισθοφόρος, meaning “mercenary”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of μισθόφορος, “mercenary; hired”.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius 1.4: … χούσης στρατιᾶς ἐνίκησεν, οὐχ ὥσπερ Αἰμίλιος ἀνδράσιν ἐμπειροπολέμοις καὶ μεμαθηκόσιν ἄρχεσθαι χρώμενος, ἀλλὰ μισθοφόροις οὖσι καὶ στρατιώταις ἀτάκτοις, πρὸς ἡδονὴν εἰθισμένοις στρατεύεσθαι.

All forms of μισθοφόρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.