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|lshtext=<b>ărātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. aro.<br /><b>I</b> A [[ploughing]], and in gen. the [[cultivation]] of the [[ground]], [[agriculture]]: [[iteratio]] arationis peracta esse debet, si, etc., Col. 11, 2, 64: aratione per transversum iterata, Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 180: ut quaestuosa [[mercatura]], fructuosa [[aratio]] dicitur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 86.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]. (abstr. for concr.), ploughed [[land]], Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47 (cf. [[aratiuncula]]): (calsa) nascitur in arationibus, Plin. 27, 8, 36, § 58.— Esp., in Roman [[financial]] lang., the [[public]] farms or plots of [[land]] farmed [[out]] for a [[tenth]] of the [[produce]] (cf. [[arator]], I. B.), Cic. Phil. 2, 39 fin.; id. Verr. 2, 3, 98.
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