θέρος, εος, τό,
(θέρω) summer, χείματος οὐδὲ θέρευς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.118; οὔτ᾽ ἐν θέρει οὔτ᾽ ἐν ὀπώρῃ 12.76 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν θέρει, opposed to ἐνψύχει, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θέρεϊ or θέρει, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.151, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 640 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ θέρος during the summer, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ θέρεος in the course of it, [[ [prev. author] 2.24; τοῦ θέρους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 463 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θέρεος or θέρους (without the Article), [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 462, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276b, +others; τοῦ παρεστῶτος θέρους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1340; τοῦ θ. εὐθὺς ἀρχομένου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47; κατὰ θέρους ἀκμήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. μεσοῦντος about midsummer, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 1; especially in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+], campaigning-season, ἅμα ἦρι τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους [[ 4.117, compare 2.31, 6.8; τοσαῦτα μὲν ἐν τῷ θ. ἐγένετο 2.68. ] Refs]
__II summerfruits, harvest, crop, θ. ἀλλότριον ἀμᾶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 392, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.21, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.365.3 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus): _plural_, θέρη ] Refs 5th c.BC+]crops, [[ PFlor. 150.5 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; θέρη σταχύων the ripe ears, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 2: _metaphorically_, πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 822, compare “Ag.” 1655; τὸ γηγενὲς δράκοντος.. θ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1026 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a horse's mane, see at {θερίζω} [[ I.3 ] Refs]; of a youth's beard, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 298, “Anthologia Graeca” 10.19 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus); also τέμνεται τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἀπόρρητον θ. τοῦ θεοῦ Τάλλου 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.168d. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]