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κλήρουχ-ος , ὁ, (κλῆρος, ἔχω)
A.one who held an allotment of land, esp. an allotment in a foreign country assigned him as a citizen, Hdt.5.77, Th.3.50, Aeschin.1.53, IG12.60.10, 22.114.9; esp. in Ptolemaic Egypt, holder of land by military tenure, PCair.Zen.3.6, 326.37, al. (iii B.C.), PSI4.344.7 (iii B.C.), PPetr.2p.4 (iii B.C.), etc.: metaph., μητέρα πολλῶν ἐτῶν κληροῦχον having old age for her lot, S.Aj.508; “Ἑρμῆ . . Φιλιππίδου κληροῦχε” Alex.89.
2. one who distributed allotments to citizens, Harp., Phot.; “ὁ κ. θεός” Ph. 2.121.
3. holder of an inheritance, Id.2.290, al.
4. in Roman Egypt, land-owner, landlord, PFay.82.19(ii A.D.), Sammelb.7193rii 2 (ii A.D.), etc.
II. Pass., κ. γῆ land distributed in allotments, D.H.8.75.
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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