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|Definition=[ᾰρ] ([[ἀρωραῖος]] in [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''762 is hyperdor., as shown by Aeol.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ἄρουρα Sapph.''Supp.''25.11, Cypr. [[arourai]] (dat. sg.) ''Inscr.Cypr.''135.20H.), ἡ, ([[ἀρόω]]) [[tilled land]] or [[arable land]], Il.11.68, etc.; φυταλιῆς καὶ ἀρούρης 6.195; οὖθαρ ἀρούρης 9.141, al.; τέλσον ἀρούρης 18.544: in plural, [[corn-lands]], [[fields]], 14.122, 23.599: rare in Prose, Pl.''Ti.''22e, Arist.''Pol.''1284a30, ''Inscr.Cypr.'' [[l.c.]]<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[earth]], [[ground]], ὀλίγη δ' ἦν ἀμφὶς ἄ. Il.3.115; σέο δ' ὀστέα πύσει ἄ. 4.174.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[land]], generally, = [[γῆ]]; [[πατρὶς ἄρουρα]] [[fatherland]], Od.1.407; <b class="b3">ἄρουρα πατρία, πατρῴα</b>, Pi.''O.''2.14, ''I.''1.35.<br><span class="bld">4</span> the [[earth]], ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄ. Il.8.486, Od.7.332; ἄχθος ἀρούρης Il.18.104. al.<br><span class="bld">5</span> metaph. of a woman as receiving seed and bearing fruit, Thgn.582, A.''Th.''754 (lyr.), [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1257, cf. ''Tr.'' 32; ἄ. θήλεια Pl.''Lg.''839a, cf. ''Ti.''91d.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[measure of land]] in Egypt, 100 [[cubits square]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.168, cf. 141, ''OGI''90.30, ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''45.12, Hecat. Abd. ap. J.''Ap.''1.22, ''PRyl.''143.17 (i A.D.), etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> = [[σωρὸς σίτου σὺν ἀχύροις]] (Cypr.), [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]