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πλέθρ-ον , τό,
A.measure of length of 100 feet, Hdt.2.124, E.Ion1137, X.An.1.2.5, SIG250 F15 (Delph., iv B.C.), etc.
II. as a square measure, 10,000 square feet, Hdt.7.199 (s.v.l.), IG12.376,385, Pl.Tht.174e, Alc.1.123c, D. 20.115, SIG306.13 (Tegea, iv B.C.).
2. = Lat. jugerum, Plu.Cam. 39, Ael.VH3.1; cf. πέλεθρον.
III. in pl., = δίυγροι καὶ βοτανώδεις τόποι, Hsch. (Written βλέθρα in Rev.Ét.Gr.10.29 (Thespiae, iii/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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