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γεωργ-ία , ἡ,
A.tillage, “τῆς Χερσονήσου” Th.1.11, etc.; agriculture, farming, Pl.Smp.187a, etc.; γ. ψιλή tillage of arable land and pasture, opp. πεφυτευμένη, of vineyards and orchards, Arist.Pol.1258b17.
2. in pl., farms, tilled land, “τοῖς μὲν γεωργίας ἐπὶ μισθώσεσι παραδιδόντες” Isoc.7.32, cf. Pl. Lg.806d, Luc.Prom.14, etc.; rarely in sg., D.30.30.
II. metaph., source of income, Lib.Or.39.12.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Onetor, 30
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 32
    • Plato, Laws, 806d
    • Plato, Symposium, 187a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.11
    • Lucian, Prometheus, 14
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