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λάχος [α^], εος, τό, （λα^χεῖν)
A.allotted portion:
1. lot, destiny, Thgn. 592, S.Ant.1303 (so Bothe for λέχος).
2. appointed office, A.Ch.361 (lyr.), Eu.334 (lyr.): pl., ib.310 (anap.), 347, 386 (both lyr.).
II. portion obtained by lot, share, Pi.O.7.58, N.10.85, A.Eu.400, X.An. 5.3.9; ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ λ., = τὸ τρίτον or τρίτως, A.Eu.5; “νυκτὸς τρίτατον λ.” Mosch.2.2, cf. A.R.1.1082; “ἤματος” Id.3.1340.—Poet. word, used by X., and found in dialects, “τῶν χρημάτων τὸ λ.” IG5(2).262.20 (Mantinea, v B.C.), cf. Schwyzer289.88 (Rhodian, ii B.C.).
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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