A.lot, “κλῆρον ἐσημήναντο ἕκαστος, ἐν δ᾽ ἔβαλον κυνέῃ” Il.7.175; “κλήρους ἐν κυνέῃ χαλκήρεϊ πάλλον” 3.316, cf. Od.10.206; “ἐκ κλῆρος ὄρουσεν” Il.3.325; “ἐκ δ᾽ ἔθορε κλῆρος κυνέης” 7.182; “ἐν δὲ κλήρους ἐβάλοντο” 23.352; “ἐπὶ κλήρους ἐβάλοντο” Od.14.209, cf. SIG1023.94 (Cos); “κλήρῳ πεπαλάσθαι” Od.9.331; “κλήρῳ λάχον ἐνθάδ᾽ ἕπεσθαι” Il.24.400, cf. 23.862, A.Pers.187, Hdt.3.83, etc.; πάντας ἀνέφεδρος ἐπαγκρατίασε τοὺς κ., i.e. he never drew a bye, SIG1073.29 (ii A.D.); “κλήρου κατὰ μοῖραν” E.Rh.545 (lyr.); “διὰ τὴν τοῦ κ. τύχην” Pl.R.619d, etc.; κλάροισι θεοπροπέων divining by lots, Pi.P.4.190: hence, of oracles, E.Hipp.1057, Ph. 838; “Ἑρμῆς γὰρ ὢν κλήρῳ ποιήσεις οἶδ᾽ ὅτι” Ar.Pax365; “κ. Ἑρμοῦ” E. Fr.39.
2. casting of lots, drawing of lots, “κ. τίθεσθαι” Id.IA1198, cf. Tr.186 (lyr.); “δοκεῖ δίκαιον εἶναι πᾶσι τῶν ἀρχῶν μετεῖναι ἐν τῷ κ.” X. Ath.1.2, cf. Arist.Pol.1300a19, IG5(1).1390.116 (Andania, i B.C.); = Lat. sortitio provinciarum, Plu.Aem.10.
II. that which is assigned by lot, allotment of land, Hdt.2.109, Th.3.50, Pl.Lg.740b, Arist.Pol. 1265b15, al.; “λαβεῖν τᾶς χώρας ἐξαίρετον τὸν πρῶτον κλᾶρον” SIG141.6 (Corc.Nigr., iv B.C.); “κ. ἱππικός” OGI229.102 (Smyrna, iii B.C.); “περὶ τοῦ λάχους τριάκοντα καὶ ἑπτὰ κλάρων” Schwyzer 289.88 (Priene, ii B.C.), cf. 313.4, al.
2. generally, piece of land, farm, estate, “οἶκος καὶ κ.” Il.15.498; “οἶκόν τε κ. τε” Od.14.64, cf.Hes.Op.37, 341, Pi.O.13.62; “κατέφαγε τὸν κ.” Hippon.35.4; οἱ κ. τῶν Συρίων their lands, Hdt. 1.76, cf. 9.94, Call.Del.281, etc.; Κύπρου Πάφου τ᾽ ἔχουσα . . κλῆρον, of Aphrodite, A.Fr.463; “κατὰ κ. Ἰαόνιον” Id.Pers.899 (lyr.); “κλῆροι χθονός” E.Heracl.876; “τῶν λαβόντων ἐν Ὀρχομενῷ κλᾶρον ἢ οἰκίαν” IG 5(2).344.12 (iii B.C.), cf. SIG169.61 (Iasus, iv B.C.); “Πισαίοις ἐνὶ κλήροισι” Nic.Fr.74.5. b. pl., title-deeds, PGrenf.1.14.11 (ii B.C.).
3. legacy, inheritance, heritable estate, Is.11.9, Pl.Lg.923d, Arist.Ath.9.2, SIG1186 (iv B.C.), IG22.1368.127, 154. b. collect., body of inheritors, Leg.Gort.l.c.
4. Astrol., certain degrees in the zodiac connected with planets and important in a nativity, Cat.Cod.Astr.1.169, 170, Ptol.Tetr.111, Vett.Val.59.21, al., Paul.Al.K.2 (cf. Sch.); “κ. τύχης” Ptol.Tetr.129.
III. of the Levites, “Κύριος αὐτὸς κλῆρος αὐτοῦ” LXX De.18.2: hence, of the Christian clergy, “ἐν κλήρῳ καταλεγόμενος” Cod.Just.1.3.38.2, Just.Nov.6.1.7, Astramps.Orac.98.7.
