χῶρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> like [[χώρα]] ''1'', a [[definite]] [[space]], [[piece]] of [[ground]], [[place]], χῶρον μὲν πρῶτον διεμέτρεον Il.3.315; <b class="b3">διαμετρητῷ ἐνὶ χώρῳ</b> ib.344; <b class="b3">νεκύων διεφαίνετο χῶρος</b> a [[space]] [[clear]] of the [[dead]], i.e. not filled by them, 8.491; χῶρος [[ὑλήεις]], χῶρος [[ἐρῆμος]], χῶρος [[οἰοπόλος]], χῶρος [[ψαμαθώδης]], Od.14.2, Il.10.520, 13.473, ''h.Merc.''75; πίων Hes.''Op.''390; [[εὐαής]] ib.599; [[καταστύφελος]] Id.''Th.''806; [[ἀσυνήθης]] Emp.118; [[region]], [[ἀτερπής|ἀτερπὴς]] χῶρος, of the [[lower world]], Od.11.94, cf. Emp.121; so εὐσεβῶν χῶρος Lycurg.96, Pl.''Ax.''371c, cf. ''IG''12(7).115.20 (Amorgos); χῶρος ἀσεβῶν Pl.''Ax.''371e, Luc.''Nec.''12; ὁ [[περίγειος]] χῶρος the [[region]] of this [[world]], τὸν π. καταλελοιπότες χῶρον μετεωροπολεῖν ἐγνώκασιν Ph.1.196; δένδρε' ἔθαλλεν χ. Pi.''O.''3.23: pl., [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.178; Βρόμιος δ' ἔχει τὸν χῶρον A.''Eu.''24; θηρῶν οὓς ὅδ' ἔχει χῶρος S.''Ph.''1148 (lyr.); Μακραὶ δὲ χῶρός ἐστ' ἐκεῖ κεκλημένος; [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]'' 283; πόδες δέ οἱ οὐχ ἑνὶ χώρῳ Call.''Del.''192.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[space]], [[compass]], ποιῆσαι ἐν βραχεῖ χώρῳ τὴν δύναμιν Plb.11.1.3.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[land]], [[country]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.30; ὁ Λιβυκὸς χῶρος [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in Id.2.19; τοῦ Ἀταρνέος ἐστὶ χῶρος Id.1.160; τῆς Ἀραβίης 2.75: pl., [[land]]s, τῶν Θηβαίων ἔκειρε τοὺς χ. Id.9.15, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1126: metaph., τὸ γὰρ νεάζον ἐν τοιοῖσδε βόσκεται χ. Id.''Tr.''145; χῶρος… οὗτος (leg. [[αὑτός]]) ἀνθρώπου φρενῶν Id.''Fr.'' 910.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[landed property]], [[estate]], Axiop.5, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.4.6.<br><span class="bld">3</span> the [[country]], opp. the [[town]], ἐν τῷ χ. καὶ ἐν τῷ ἄστει Id.''Oec.''5.4, cf. 11.18; σπείρω τ' ἄρουραν . . Βερέκυντα χ. A.''Fr.''158.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[country town]], IG12(9).189.26 (Eretria, iv B. C., pl.); ὁ χῶρος ὁ Μοττιανῶν κτλ. ''LW''1745 (Gergis).—Rare in pure Att. Prose (Th.2.20, 7.78, [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] in Antipho 3.2.8), but common in X.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[northwest wind]], Lat. [[caurus]], [[corus]], Act.Ap.27.12.