ἄροτρον [ᾰ], τό,
(ἀρόω) plough, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.374; πηκτὸν ἄ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.353, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1201, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.224, etc.; ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 340; ἀρότρῳ ἀναρρηγνύντες αὔλακας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.14: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 515, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus “fragment” 4.6. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__b ἡ ἀπ᾽ ἀρότρου πληγή, in boxing, right-handed blow, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.10.2, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 20. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 in plural, metaphorically of the organs of generation, [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 12.46, +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II ἄροτρα· γῆ, χώρα, πλέθρα, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]