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παραχώρ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
A.retiring. Str.10.2.12 (pl.) ; recession, Procl.Hyp.5.110.
2. c. gen., retiring from, giving up, surrender, BGU1127.13 (i B.C.) ; δανείου ib.1171.12 (i B.C.) ; of a holding of land, surrender, “λαβεῖν κατὰ -χώρησιν” PPetr.3p.40 (iii B.C.), cf. PTeb.30.12 (ii B. C.) : generally, cession, withdrawalfrom, τῆς χώρας, τῆς ἀρχῆς, D.S.13.43, Plu.Cat.Mi.58 ; “ἡγεμονίας” D.H.4.27 ; π. ἄλλων ἄλλοις surrender of one point to one, another to another, Arr.Epict. 3.24.10.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.43
    • Strabo, Geography, 10.2.12
    • Plutarch, Cato Minor, 58
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.27
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