Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“κλαρώεν” Foed.Delph.Pell. 1 A6, “κλαρώειν” SIG647.33 (Stiris, ii B.C.): (κλῆρος A):—appoint by lot, “ἐξ ἁπάντων τὰς ἀρχάς” Isoc.7.22; “ἀθλητάς” Arist.Rh.1393b5; “διαιρετὰς τῶν κτημάτων” SIG364.9 (Ephesus, iii B.C.); τὰ δικαστήρια ib.647.33; ἄλλον [ἱερόν] IG5(1).1390.6(Andania, i B.C.); also, of the lot, fall on, “οὓς ἐκλήρωσεν πάλος” E.Ion416:—Med., cast lots for office, of candidates, “ἂν ἔλθῃ κληρωσόμενος τῶν ἐννέα ἀρχόντων” Lys.6.4, cf. 24.13; “κ. ἱερωσύνης” D.57.62; “κληρουμένων ἐπιμελῶς” Arist.Ath.27.4; “ὃς ἂν κληρούμενος λαγχάνῃ” Pl.Plt.298e:—Pass., to be appointed by lot, Arist. Ath.43.2, Decr.ib.30.5, SIG525.11 (Crete, iii B.C.), IG5(1).1390.132 (Andania, i B.C.), etc.; [“πρόεδροι] κεκληρωμένοι” D.24.89; “κεκληρῶσθαι ἄρχειν” Luc.Luct.2.

2. cast lots, Pl.Lg.759c, 856d; κληρώσω πάντας I will make all draw lots, Ar.Ec.682; “κ. τὰς φυλάς” Plb.6.20.2:—Med., A.Th.55, Ar.Ec.836, D.21.133; ὅτε ἐκληροῦσθε when you were drawing lots, Id.19.1.

3. Med., have allotted one, obtain by lot, “δεσπότας” E.Tr.29; “ἱερωσύνην” Aeschin.1.188; “ἀμπέλων δεκανίαν” IGRom.4.1675 (Lydia): metaph., obtain as one's sphere or province, “τὸ ταὐτὸν ὁ δημιουργὸς ἐκληρώσατο” Dam.Pr.321; Astrol., “ἥλιος κληρωσάμενος τὴν ὥραν” Vett.Val.61.1; κεκληρῶσθαι to be in possession of, to have, Hp. Ep.20, Procl.Inst.110; “τὴν καρδίαν κεκλήρωται ἐπὶ τῇ φάρυγγι” Ael. NA5.31.

II. allot, assign, “ὔμμε δ᾽ ἐκλάρωσε πότμος Ζηνί” Pi.O.8.15; “μοίρας, τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ μονῇ, τὴν δ᾽ ἐπὶ ἐξόδῳ” Hdt.1.94; “ἓν ἑκάστῳ ἐκλήρωσαν” Th.6.42:—Pass., “ἐκληρώθην δούλη” E.Hec.100 (anap.).

2. ὀμφὰν κ. deliver an oracle by lot, Id.Ion908 (lyr.).