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ἄροτος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄροτος

Etym.: a)ro/w

Sense

  1. a corn-field
  2. a crop, fruit of the field
  3. tillage, ploughing, husbandry
  4. the season of tillage, seed-time, a season, year

Examples

  • εὖτ’ ἂν δὲ πρώτιστ’ ἄροτοσ θνητοῖσι φανείῃ, δὴ τότ’ ἐφορμηθῆναι ὁμῶσ δμῶέσ τε καὶ αὐτὸσ αὐήν καὶ διερὴν ἀρόων ἀρότοιο καθ’ ὡρ́ην, πρωὶ μάλα σπεύδων, ἵνα τοι πλήθωσιν ἄρουραι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 52:1)
  • τούτων δὲ πάντων ἱερώτατόσ ἐστιν ὁ γαμήλιοσ σπόροσ καὶ ἄροτοσ ἐπὶ παίδων τεκνώσει. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 42 2:1)
  • ἴδ’ οἱο͂ν, ὦ παῖδεσ, προσέμιξεν ἄφαρ τοὔποσ τὸ θεοπρόπον ἡμῖν τᾶσ παλαιφάτου προνοίασ, ὅ τ’ ἔλακεν, ὁπότε τελεόμηνοσ ἐκφέροι δωδέκατοσ ἄροτοσ, ἀναδοχὰν τελεῖν πόνων τῷ Διὸσ αὐτόπαιδι· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, strophe 11)
  • Τοῖσι μὲν οὔτε βοῶν ἄροτοσ μέλει, οὔτε τισ ἄλλη φυταλιὴ καρποῖο μελίφρονοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 17:1)
  • ὅσῳ δὲ θᾶττον ἡ ἀνάψυξισ, τοσῷδε θᾶττον ὁ ἄροτοσ καὶ ὁ σπόροσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 8:16)

Synonyms

  1. a corn-field

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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