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κληροῦχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κληροῦχος

Etym.: klh=ros, e)/xw

Sense

  1. one who held an allotment of land, to citizens in a foreign country, an allottee, having, for her lot

Examples

  • Ὅμηροσ μὲν οὖν ἔφη τὴν γῆν ἐπίκοινον λελεῖφθαι καὶ τὸν Ὄλυμπον τοῖσ θεοῖσ, ὁ δὲ γῆσ τε κληροῦχοσ αὐτὸσ διαφέρων καὶ τῶν ἰδίων αὖ τῶν ἄλλων μερῶν κοινωνὸσ ἑκάστῳ προσφαίνεται, πάντα αὐτὸσ εἷσ ὢν ἅπασιν, εἷσ ταυτὸν δυνάμενοσ, πάσασ πράξεισ καὶ πάσασ εὐπορίασ ἐν ἅπασι καιροῖσ καὶ τόποισ συγκατεργαζόμενοσ, γῆσ καὶ θαλάττησ, φαῖεν ἂν ποιηταὶ, κλῇδασ ἔχων, ἐπεὶ καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀναγκαίαν τοῦ βίου τελευτὴν ἔτι οὗτοσ ἄρχων ἀνθρώποισ μένει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:8)

Synonyms

  1. one who held an allotment of land

Related

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

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