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θέρος , εος, τό, (θέρω)
A.summer, “χείματος οὐδὲ θέρευς” Od.7.118; “οὔτ᾽ ἐν θέρει οὔτ᾽ ἐν ὀπώρῃ” 12.76; ἐν θέρει, opp. ἐνψύχει, S.Ph.18; θέρεϊ or θέρει, Il.22.151, Hes.Op.640; τὸ θέρος during the summer, Hdt.1.202; τοῦ θέρεος in the course of it, Id.2.24; “τοῦ θέρους” Ar.Fr.463; θέρεος or θέρους (without the Art.), Hes.Op.462, Pl.Phdr.276b, al.; “τοῦ παρεστῶτος θέρους” S.Ph.1340; “τοῦ θ. εὐθὺς ἀρχομένου” Th.2.47; “κατὰ θέρους ἀκμήν” X.HG5.3.19; θ. μεσοῦντος about midsummer, Luc.Hist.Conscr.1; esp. in Th., campaigning-season, “ἅμα ἦρι τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους” 4.117, cf. 2.31, 6.8; “τοσαῦτα μὲν ἐν τῷ θ. ἐγένετο” 2.68.
II. summerfruits, harvest, crop, “θ. ἀλλότριον ἀμᾶν” Ar.Eq.392, cf. D.53.21, AP11.365.3 (Agath.): pl., “θέρη” crops, PFlor.150.5 (iii A.D.); θέρη σταχύων the ripe ears, Plu.Fab.2: metaph., “πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος” A.Pers. 822, cf. Ag.1655; “τὸ γηγενὲς δράκοντος . . θ.” E.Ba.1026; of a horse's mane, v. θερίζω 1.3; of a youth's beard, Call.Del.298, AP10.19 (Apollonid.); also “τέμνεται τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἀπόρρητον θ. τοῦ θεοῦ Τάλλου” Jul.Or.5.168d.
III. Astron., “τὸ μέγα θ., ὅταν πάντες οἱ πλάνητες ἐν θερινῷ ζῳδίῳ γένωνται” Olymp.in Mete.111.30.
IV. metaph., in an epitaph for a year of life, Supp.Epigr.2.874.4 (Egypt).
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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