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ἀρ-οτήρ [α^], ῆρος, ὁ,
A.plougher, husbandman, Il.18.542, 23.835, Hecat.335J., E.El.104, etc.: in Prose, Σκύθαι ἀροτῆρες, opp. νομάδες, Hdt.4.17, cf. 191, 1.125, 7.50.
2. as Adj., βοῦς ἀροτήρ steer for ploughing, Hes.Op.405, Arat.132, Plu.Pyrrh.5, OGI519.21 (Asia Minor, iii A. D.), etc.; “ὁλκός” Nonn.D.3.192; “τένων” Orph.H.40.8.
II. metaph., begetter, father, “τέκνων” E.Tr.135 (lyr.); “εὐτεκνίης” IG14.1615.
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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