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ἄρ-οτος [α^], ὁ,
A.corn-field, “οὔτ᾽ ἄρα ποίμνῃσιν καταΐσχεται οὔτ᾽ ἀρότοισιν” Od.9.122: metaph., “Ἄρη τὸν ἀρότοις θερίζοντα βροτοὺς ἐν ἄλλοις” A. Supp.638 (lyr.).
2. crop, S.OT270: metaph., seed, “τέκνων ὃν ἔτεκες ἄροτον” E.Med.1281 (lyr.); ὅσον εὐσεβίᾳ κρατοῦμεν ἄδικον ἄροτον (cj. Barnes for ἄροτρον）“ ἀνδρῶν” Id.Ion1095.
3. tillage, ploughing, Hes.Op.384,458; ζῆν ἀπ᾽ ἀρότου live by husbandry, Hdt.4.46; ἄ. ἱερός ritual ploughing, ceremonial at Athens, Plu.2.144a: pl., Ar.Ra. 1034.
4. metaph., procreation of children, “ὁ ἄ. ὁ ἐν γυναικί” Pl. Cra.406b; παίδων ἐπ᾽ ἀρότῳ γνησίων, in Athen. marriage-contracts, Men.720, cf. Pk.436, Luc.Tim.17; “τέκνων ἀρότοισιν” E.Hyps.Fr.1iii 25.
II. season of tillage, seed-time, Hes.Op.450, Thphr.HP8.1.2, Arat.267, etc.: hence, season, year, “τὸν παρελθόντ᾽ ἄ.” S.Tr.69; δωδέκατος ἄ. ib.825 (lyr.).
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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