wages of manual labour : generally wages, pay, guerdon, reward , (Aristophanes Comicus):—;also in bad sense, τῆς ὑψηγόρου γλώσσης ἐπ. rewards for proud speech, (Aeschulus Tragicus); ξιφέων ἐπ. the wages of the sword, i. e. slaughter by it, (Sophocles Tragicus) (ML)