καπηλεύω

kaphleuvw kaphleuvw; (
kavphlo", i. e. a. an inn-keeper, especially a vintner; b. a petty retailer, a huckster, pedler; cf.
ouj
dikaiwqhvsetai
kavphlo"
ajpov
aJmartiva"); a. to be a retailer, to peddle; b. with the accusative of the thing, "to make money by selling anything; to get sordid gain by dealing in anything, to do a thing for base gain" (
oiJ
tav
maqhvmata
periagonte"
katav
povlei"
kaiv
pwlou'nte"
kaiv
kaphleuvonte", Plato, Prot., p. 313 d.;
mavchn, Aeschylus the Septuagint 551 (545); Latin cauponari bellum, i. e. to fight for gain, trade in war, Ennius quoted in Cicero, offic. 1, 12, 38;
eJtairan
tov
th'"
w{ra"
a[nqo"
kaphleuousan, Philo de caritat. sec. 14, cf. leg. ad Gaium sec. 30, and many other examples in other authors). Hence, some suppose that
kaphleuvein
tovn
lovgon
tou'
Qeou' in is equivalent to to trade in the word of God, i. e. to try to get base gain by teaching divine truth. But as pedlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain (
oiJ
kavphloiv
sou
mivsgousi
tovn
oi\non
u{dati, the Septuagint;
kavphloiv,
oiJ
tovn
oi\non
kerannuvnte", Pollux, onomast. 7, 193;
oiJ
filosofoi
ajpodidontai
tav
maqhvmata,
w{sper
oiJ
kavphloiv,
kerasavmenoi
gev
oiJ
polloiv
kaiv
dolwsante"
kaiv
kakometrounte", Lucian. Hermot. 59),
kaphleuvein
tiv was also used as synonymous with to corrupt, to adulterate (Themistius, or. 21, p. 247, Hard. edition says that the false philosophers
tov
qeiotaton
tw'n
ajnqrwpivnwn
ajgaqw'n
kibdhleuvein
tev
kaiv
aijscuvnein
kaiv
kaphleuvein); and most interpreters rightly decide in favor of this meaning (on account of the context) in , cf.
doloun
tovn
lovgon
tou'
Qeou', . (Cf. Trench, sec. lxii.)*