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ἄρουρα [α^ρ] （ἀρωραῖος in Ar.Ach.762 is hyperdor., as shown by Aeol.
A.“ἄρουρα” Sapph.Supp.25.11, Cypr. a ro u ra i (dat. sg.) Inscr.Cypr.135.20H.), ἡ, (ἀρόω) tilled or arable land, Il.11.68, etc.; “φυταλιῆς καὶ ἀρούρης” 6.195; “οὖθαρ ἀρούρης” 9.141, al.; “τέλσον ἀρούρης” 18.544: in pl., corn-lands, fields, 14.122, 23.599: rare in Prose, Pl.Ti.22e, Arist.Pol.1284a30, Inscr.Cypr. l.c.
2. generally, earth, ground, “ὀλίγη δ᾽ ἦν ἀμφὶς ἄ.” Il.3.115; “σέο δ᾽ ὀστέα πύσει ἄ.” 4.174.
3. land, generally, = γῆ; πατρὶς ἄ. father-land, Od.1.407; ἄ. πατρία, πατρῴα, Pi.O.2.14, I.1.35.
4. the earth, “ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄ.” Il.8.486, Od.7.332; “ἄχθος ἀρούρης” Il.18.104. al.
5. metaph. of a woman as receiving seed and bearing fruit, Thgn.582, A.Th.754 (lyr.), S.OT1257, cf. Tr. 32; “ἄ. θήλεια” Pl.Lg.839a, cf. Ti.91d.
II. measure of land in Egypt, 100 cubits square, Hdt.2.168, cf. 141, OGI90.30, POxy.45.12, Hecat. Abd. ap. J.Ap.1.22, PRyl.143.17 (i A.D.), etc.
III. = σωρὸς σίτου σὺν ἀχύροις (Cypr.), Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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