δρηπέτης

A. runaway, βασιλέος from the king, Hdt. 3.137; esp. runaway slave, δούλοισι, καὶ τοῦτο δρηπέτῃσι Id. 6.11, cf. Ar. Ach. 1187, Herod. 3.13, etc.; δ. ἀνήρ S. Fr. 63.

2. Adj., ποὺς δ. E. Or. 1498 (lyr.), cf. Aeschin. 3.152; βίος δ. fugitive life, AP 10.87 (Pall.); οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον . . μεθείς no skulker's lot, i. e. not a lump of earth which would fall in pieces, of the lot of Cresphontes, S. Aj. 1285.

II. fem. δραπέτις, ιδος, Luc. Asin. 25: as Adj., στέγη a home whose occupants are shifting, S. Fr. 174; ψυχή AP 12.80 (Mel.); μέλισσαι Ael. Ep. 5; Δραπέτιδες, title of play by Cratinus.