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σωρός , ὁ,
A.heap, esp. heap of corn, Hes.Op.778, Theoc.7.155; “ς. σίτου” Hdt.1.22; “πυρῶν” Plu.2.697b (but σιρῷ is prob. cj.); of other things, “ς. ψήγματος” Hdt.6.125; “ἀκανθέων” Id.2.75; ξύλων, λίθων, νεκρῶν, X.HG4.4.12; λίθινος ς. APl.4.254: abs., heap or mound of earth, X.Vect.4.2 (pl.), Diph.100.
2. generally, heap, quantity, χρημάτων, κακῶν, ἀγαθῶν, Ar.Pl.269, 270, 804: opp. a definite number or quantity, Arist.Metaph.1044a4, 1084b22; “ς. ἢ ὁρμαθὸν ψάμμου” Id.de An.419b24: prov., κόγχην προπάροιθεν ἔχειν σωρῶν, of contentment. Epigr.Gr.446 (Palestine).
3. as Adj., πυροῦ σωροῦ, of a quality of corn, PGiss.63.7 (ii A.D.), Ostr.774 (cf. p.437), al.
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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