χωρίον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Dim. (only in form, cf.<br><span class="bld">A</span> χωρίον μέγιστον Th.2.19) of [[χῶρος]] and [[χώρα]]:<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[place]], [[spot]], [[district]], very freq. in Prose from [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] down wards, e.g. 2.8,10,29, Th.2.54; also in Com., as Ar.''Nu.''209, etc.; never in Trag.: <b class="b3">ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ.</b> from the same [[spot]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.11; <b class="b3">χωρίον ἔρημον, χωρία χαλεπὰ καὶ πετρώδη</b>, Th.4.9; χ. ἱππάσιμα [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.4.14: pl., [[site]]s, οἰκίσαι χωρία Th.1.12.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[town]], ib.100, etc.; χωρίων κατάληψις [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 455b, cf. Lys.28.7, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[landed property]], [[estate]], Th.1.106, Pl.''Lg.''844b, Lys.7.4, ''IG''12.325.10; used with [[ἀγρός]], X.''HG''2.4.1, etc.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[place of business]], [[office]], D.45.33.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[space]], [[room]], Th.1.63, etc.; especially in Geom., [[space enclosed by lines]], [[area]], [[figure]], Pl.''Men.''82b sq., Ar.''Nu.''152, Euc.''Dat.''55, Papp.240.17: esp. [[rectangle]], Archim.''Con.Sph.''2, al.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[passage in a book]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.117 (unless interpol.), Luc.''Hist.Conscr.''12, Ath.15.672a, Simp.''inCael''.126.4.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[subject]], Th.1.97: pl., [[topic]]s, Lycurg.31.<br><span class="bld">7</span> Medic., [[part]] of the [[body]], Hp.''Fract.''2, cf. ''Aph.'' 1.21 (pl.); <b class="b3">τὸ χωρίον τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἥπατος</b> [[periphrasis]] for the [[gallbladder]], Id.''Morb.''4.36.