κλῆρος
__A, Doric dialect κλᾶρος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below), “Leg.Gort.” 5.27, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], ου, ὁ:— lot, κλῆρον ἐσημήναντο ἕκαστος, ἐν δ᾽ ἔβαλον κυνέῃ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.175; κλήρους ἐν κυνέῃ χαλκήρεϊ πάλλον 3.316, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.206; ἐκ κλῆρος ὄρουσεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.325; ἐκ δ᾽ ἔθορε κλῆρος κυνέης 7.182; ἐν δὲ κλήρους ἐβάλοντο 23.352; ἐπὶ κλήρους ἐβάλοντο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.209, compare “SIG” 1023.94 (from Cos)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κλήρῳ πεπαλάσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.331; κλήρῳ λάχον ἐνθάδ᾽ ἕπεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.400, compare 23.862, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 187, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.83, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντας ἀνέφεδρος ἐπαγκρατίασε τοὺς κ., i.e. he never drew a bye, [[ “SIG” 1073.29 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; κλήρου κατὰ μοῖραν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 545 (Lyric poetry); διὰ τὴν τοῦ κ. τύχην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλάροισι θεοπροπέων divining by lots, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.190: hence, of oracles, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1057, “Ph.” 838; Ἑρμῆς γὰρ ὢν κλήρῳ ποιήσεις οἶδ᾽ ὅτι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 365; κ. Ἑρμοῦ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 39. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.2 casting of lots, drawing of lots, κ. τίθεσθαι [[ [prev. author] “IA” 1198, compare “Tr.” 186 (Lyric poetry); δοκεῖ δίκαιον εἶναι πᾶσι τῶν ἀρχῶν μετεῖναι ἐν τῷ κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.2, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1300a19, “IG” 5(1).1390.116 (Andania, 1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; = Latin sortitio provinciarum, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 10. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]