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|Definition=ὁ, prop.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[enclosed place]] (v. sub fin.), but always with collat. notion of a [[feeding place]]: in Il., [[farmyard]], in which the cattle were kept, αὐλῆς ἐν χόρτῳ 11.774; αὐλῆς ἐν χόρτοισι 24.640.<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, any [[feeding ground]], [[pasturage]], freq. in plural, <b class="b3">χόρτοι λέοντος</b>, of [[Nemea]], Pi.''O.''13.44; χόρτοι εὔδενδροι E.''IT''134 (lyr.); <b class="b3">χόρτος οὐρανοῦ</b> the [[expanse]] of [[heaven]], Poet. ap. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[fodder]], [[provender]], esp. for horses and cattle, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.16 (of fish); θηρῶν ὀρείων χόρτον, οὐχ ἵππων λέγεις E.''Alc.''495; [[grass]], Hes.''Op.''606, E.''Rh.''771, ''1 Ep.Cor.''3.12; χόρτος [[κοῦφος]] = [[hay]], X.''An.''1.5.10; <b class="b3">χόρτος ἐβλάστησεν, χόρτος ἐξηράνθη</b>, ''Ev.Matt.''13.26, ''1 Ep.Pet.''1.24; [[ἄνθος]] χόρτου ''Ep.Jac.''1.10: opp. [[σῖτος]] (food for man), [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.41, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''8.6.12; [[χόρτον ἔχει ἔπὶ τοῦ κέρατος]] = [[he has hay on his horns]], as translation of the Lat. proverb, [[foenum habet in cornu]], of a [[dangerous]] [[ox]], Plu.''Crass.''7.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[green crop]], [γῆ] ἐσπαρμένη χόρτῳ ''PTeb.''27.72 (ii B. C.), al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Poet., [[food]] generally, [[δούλιος]] χόρτος Hippon. 35.6, cf. E.''Cyc.''507 (lyr.), Crates Theb.10; cf. [[χορτάζω]]. (Cf. Lat. [[hortus]], Welsh garth '[[fold]], [[enclosure]]', Irish gort '[[crop]]', '[[field]]'.)