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κληρουχ-ία , ἡ,
A.apportionment of land in a foreign country among citizens, “ἡ Σάμου κ.” Arist.Rh.1384b32, cf. Plb.4.81.2, D.S.15.23; esp. to soldiers on the active list, PPetr.3p.163 (iii B.C.), PTeb.30.26(ii B.C.); = Lat. colonia, D.H.8.75, Plu.Flam.2.
b. in Roman Egypt, a numbered division of the land, PTeb.343r.9 (ii A.D.), Sammelb.4414.5 (ii A.D.).
2. collect., = οἱ κληροῦχοι, the body of citizens who receive such allotments, “ἀποικίαις καὶ κληρουχίαις” IG12.140.9; “κ. ἐκπέμπειν” Isoc.4.107(pl.); “κ. ἔγραφεν” Plu.Per.34(pl.).
II. inheritance, LXX Ne.11.20, Ph.2.290(pl.).
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.23
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 107
    • Old Testament, 2 Esdras, 11.20
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.81.2
    • Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, 2
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 34
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.75
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