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χωρ-ίον , τό, Dim. (only in form, cf.
A.“χ. μέγιστον” Th.2.19) of χῶρος and χώρα:
1. place, spot, district, very freq. in Prose from Hdt. down wards, e.g. 2.8,10,29, Th.2.54; also in Com., as Ar.Nu.209, etc.; never in Trag.: ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ. from the same spot, Hdt.1.11; χ. ἔρημον, χ. χαλεπὰ καὶ πετρώδη, Th.4.9; “χ. ἱππάσιμα” X.Cyr.1.4.14: pl., sites, “οἰκίσαι χωρία” Th.1.12.
2. town, ib.100, etc.; “χωρίων κατάληψις” Pl.Grg.455b, cf. Lys.28.7, etc.
3. landed property, estate, Th.1.106, Pl.Lg.844b, Lys.7.4, IG12.325.10; used with ἀγρός, X.HG2.4.1, etc.
4. place of business, office, D.45.33.
5. space, room, Th.1.63, etc.; esp. in Geom., space enclosed by lines, area, figure, Pl.Men.82b sq., Ar.Nu.152, Euc.Dat.55, Papp.240.17: esp. rectangle, Archim.Con.Sph.2, al.
6. passage in a book, Hdt.2.117 (unless interpol.), Luc.Hist.Conscr.12, Ath.15.672a, Simp.inCael.126.4.
b. subject, Th.1.97: pl., topics, Lycurg.31.
7. Medic., part of the body, Hp.Fract.2, cf. Aph. 1.21 (pl.); τὸ χ. τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἥπατος periphr. for the gall-bladder, Id.Morb.4.36.
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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