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ὥριος (A), α, ον, Pi.P.9.98; also ος, ον AP7.188 (Thall.), 9.311 (Phil.), Opp.H.1.689:—poet. form of ὡραῖος,
A.produced in season, ὥρια πάντα all the fruits of the season, Od.9.131, Theoc.7.62, cf. Hes. Op.394, Theoc.15.112, AP9.329 (Leon.).
II. generally, in due season, seasonable, “ἔργα” Hes.Op.392, 422; γάμος ib.697; “ὠδίς” Opp. l.c., cf. AP9.311 (Phil.); χρόνος ὥ. ἡμῖν ib.10.100 (Antiphan.); “πλόος κώπαις ὥ.” Arat.154; ὥριον (sc. ἐστί) c. inf., it is time . . , Sol.27.9 (s. v. l.).
2. youthful, “ἄνθος” Epigr.Gr.319 (Philadelphia); fresh, ὥριον οἷά τε μῆλον κτλ. Archyt.Amphiss.2 ( = Euph.11).
III. ὥρια, τά, the season, “νόσον ὥρια τίκτει” BionFr.15.13.—This poet. form is also used in late Prose, “τὸ ὥ. τῆς ἀκμῆς” Hld.10.9; “τὰ ὥ.” D.L.2.139, cf. Him.Or.3.5. Adv. “-ως” Anon. ap. Suid.; but neut. sg. used as Adv., Arat.1076.
2. θαψάτωσαν καὶ τὰ ὥ. αὐτοῦ, καθὼς ἔθος ἐστίν, αὐτοὶ ποιησάτωσαν his funeral rites, IG9(1).39, cf. 42 (Phocis, 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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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 392
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