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κληρουχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κληρουχία

Structure: κληρουχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from klhrou=xos

Sense

  1. the allotment of land to citizens in a foreign country
  2. the body of citizens who receive such allotments

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ Μενηνίου καταδίκησ ἀφορμὴν αὖθισ εἰλήφεσαν οἱ πατρίκιοι τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ δημοτικὸν ὀργῆσ καὶ οὔτε τὴν κληρουχίαν ἐπέτρεπον ἔτι αὐτῷ ποιεῖσθαι, οὔτ’ ἄλλο ἐβούλοντο ἐνδιδόναι μαλακὸν οὐδέν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 27 6:2)
  • ἐπειδὴ τὸ κοινὸν ὑμῶν μῖσοσ, ὃ διὰ τὴν κωλυθεῖσαν κληρουχίαν ἔχετε, καὶ ἐμὲ λυπεῖ, καὶ οὐδὲ ὁ κατήγοροσ αὐτὸ ἀπεκρύψατο, ἀλλὰ μέροσ οὐκ ἐλάχιστον ἐποιήσατο τῆσ ἐμῆσ κατηγορίασ, βούλομαι βραχέα εἰπεῖν πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 32 2:1)
  • οἷσ τὴν τιμὴν τῆσδε τῆσ γῆσ τοῖσ ἀφῃρημένοισ ἡμεῖσ ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων χρημάτων εὐθὺσ ἐκ πρώτησ ἀφορμῆσ ἀποδώσομεν, ἵνα μὴ βέβαιον ἔχητε μόνον ὑμεῖσ τὴν κληρουχίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄφθονον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 19 6:12)
  • ἐμοὶ δὲ ἔρρωται μὲν ὁ στρατόσ, ὅσοσ τέ μοι συναδικεῖται τὴν κληρουχίαν ἀφαιρούμενοσ ὑπὸ Λευκίου καὶ ὁ ἄλλοσ, ὃν ἔχω, ἔρρωται δὲ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ πλὴν τῆσ γνώμησ μόνησ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 3 11:3)
  • ἀλλά με σὺ τήνδε τὴν διαβολὴν αὐτοῖσ διέβαλλεσ, τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ πολέμου μεταφέρων ἐπὶ τὴν κληρουχίαν ἀπὸ σαυτοῦ, καὶ τῷδε μάλιστα αὐτοὺσ ἑλὼν ἐμοῦ κεκράτηκασ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 5 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. the allotment of land to citizens in a foreign country

Related

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

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