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|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[load]], [[burden]], [[freight]], <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>9.13</span> (pl.), Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>26.1, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>352</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lys.</span>312</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span> 3.13.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>7.1.37</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Lycurg.96</span>, Aq.<span class="title">2 Ki.</span>15.33; λιβανωτικὰ φ. <span class="title">OGI</span>132.11 (Alexandria, ii B. C.); φέρων ἀνθράκων φ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>214</span> (lyr.); φ. βαστάζειν <span class="bibl">Teles p.10H.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> pl., [[wares]], [[merchandise]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>643</span>, <span class="bibl">693</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.1</span>, <span class="bibl">2.179</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>899</span>,<span class="bibl">910</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">V.</span>1398</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ra.</span> 573</span>, <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Ath.</span>6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> esp. of agricultural [[produce]], [[crops]], PRev.Laws 43.14, al. (iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>105.24</span> (ii B. C.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of [[a child in the womb]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.2.5</span>; <b class="b3">ἔρωτος</b> f.l. in <span class="bibl">Anacr.170</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> metaph., <b class="b3">μεῖζον φ. ἢ καθ' αὑτὸν αἰρόμενον</b> taking too heavy a [[burden]] upon him, <span class="bibl">D.11.14</span>; μέγα τὸ φ. <span class="bibl">Antiph.3</span>; οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν βαρύτερον τῶν φορτίων . . γυναικός <span class="bibl">Id.329</span>; οὔτοι τὸ γῆράς ἐστιν . . τῶν φ. μέγιστον <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.53</span>; τὸ φ. μου ἐλαφρόν ἐστιν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>11.30</span>; <b class="b3">χρυσοῦν φ</b>., of wealth, <span class="bibl">Secund.<span class="title">Sent.</span>9</span>. (Dim. only in form, commonly used for <b class="b3">φόρτος</b> in Com. and Prose; wrongly condemned as un-Attic by Moer.<span class="bibl">p.393</span> P., Thom.Mag.<span class="bibl">p.16R.</span>) </span>