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γη-μόρος , ὁ, Dor. and Trag. γα_μόρος , Trag.Adesp.208 (s. v. l.), A.Supp.613,
A.PLond.ined.2134 (ii A. D.); cf. τῆσδε γαμόρῳ χθονός (Dobree for τῇ δέ γ᾽ ἀμοίρου) A.Eu.890; Att. γεωμόρος , (γῆ, μείρομαι):—one who has a share of land, landowner: οἱ γαμόροι, in Sicily, the wealthy landowners, Hdt.7.155: at Argos, A.Supp. l.c.; at Athens, γεωμόροι landowners, large or small, opp. εὐπατρίδαι, δημιουργοί, Arist.Ath. Fr.2, Pl.Lg.737e, etc.
2. γεωμόροι, οἱ, = Lat. tresviri agris dividundis, D.H.9.52.
3. metaph. of Ἅιδης, Trag.Adesp. l.c.
II. as Adj., dividing earth, i.e. ploughing, “βοῦς” A.R.1.1214; “γεωμόρος τέχνα” IG9(1).880 (Corc.).
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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