Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄρουρα

Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄρουρα

Etym.: a)ro/w

Sense

  1. tilled or arable land, seed-land, cornland, corn-lands, fields, land, earth, land
  2. as bearing children
  3. a measure of land, jugerum

Examples

  • καρπὸν δ’ ἔφερε ζείδωροσ ἄρουρα αὐτομάτη πολλόν τε καὶ ἄφθονον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 16:7)
  • καὶ τοὶ μὲν ναίουσιν ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἔχοντεσ ἐν μακάρων νήσοισι παρ’ Ὠκεανὸν βαθυδίνην, ὄλβιοι ἡρ́ωεσ, τοῖσιν μελιηδέα καρπὸν τρὶσ ἔτεοσ θάλλοντα φέρει ζείδωροσ ἄρουρα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 20:4)
  • οὐδ’ ἐπὶ νηῶν νίσσονται, καρπὸν δὲ φέρει ζείδωροσ ἄρουρα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 27:17)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἅπαξ τὴν ὄψιν ἐσ τὸ ἀτενὲσ ἀπηρεισάμην, ἅπασ ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίοσ ἤδη κατεφαίνετο, οὐ κατὰ ἔθνη μόνον καὶ πόλεισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ σαφῶσ οἱ πλέοντεσ, οἱ πολεμοῦντεσ, οἱ γεωργοῦντεσ, οἱ δικαζόμενοι, τὰ γύναια, τὰ θηρία, καὶ πάνθ’ ἁπλῶσ ὁπόσα τρέφει ζείδωροσ ἄρουρα. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 12:4)
  • πατὴρ μὲν ἐφύτευσέν με, σὴ δ’ ἔτικτε παῖσ, τὸ σπέρμ’ ἄρουρα παραλαβοῦσ’ ἄλλου πάρα· (Euripides, episode, iambic 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. as bearing children

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

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