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Cerdo

κέρδων

Cerdo (κέρδων), a name applied to slaves or lower class of workmen (Juv. 4.153, 8.182; Pers. 4.51), sometimes with the additional name of the trade, as sutor cerdo, a cobbler (Mart. 3.59); cerdo faber, a smith (Spon, Misc. Erud. Ant. 221).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.