χώρα,
Ionic dialect χώρη, ἡ, ={χῶρος}, space or room in which a thing is, defined as partly occupied space, distinguished from κενόν and τόπος, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.26 (compare2.163), 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 3.124; ποταγορεύοντι τὰν ὕλαν τόπον καὶ χώραν 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 94b (in ὁ τόπος τῆς χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705c χώρα] Refs 5th c.BC+] = country[[ (compare 11.1); so χώρας ἐν τόποις Λιβυστικοῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 292); οὐδέ τι πολλὴ χώρη μεσσηγύς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.521; νόμισμα.. χώρας μεγάλης δέοιτ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 7.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χώραν τινὶ καταλιπεῖν leave room for it, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.123f, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 generally, place, spot, στρέψεσθ᾽ ἐκ χώρης ὅθι.. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.516, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.352; ὀλίγῃ ἐνὶ χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.394 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χώραν ἐκ χώρας μεταβάλλειν move from place to place, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 181c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; field in a ceiling, [[ “IG” 42(1).103.193, 106ii139 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ πρώτη χ. the first field (on the chest of Cypselus), [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.17.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; socket or cavity of a joint, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 79, 80 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the eye, [[ “IG” 42(1).121.76 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; as euphemism for the genital organs, [[ Hippiatr. 33, 71. ] Refs]
__3 the position, proper place of a person or thing, ἐνὶ χώρῃ ἕζεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.349 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: especially a soldier's post, Ἄρης οὐκ ἔνι χώρα is not at his post (or perhaps in the land,[[compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 524) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 78 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χώραν λιπεῖν, προλείπειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126, 2.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μισθοφορεῖν κεναῖς χ. draw pay for unfilled vacancies, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.146; ἐπιγράψαι αὐτῷ τὴν χ. “UPZ” 14.88 (2nd c.BC): later τὴν χ. τινὸς ἀποπληρῶσαι, ποιῆσαι,] Refs 4th c.BC+] fill a person's place, [[ POxy. 136.15(6th c.AD), “PMasp.” 32.11 (6th c.AD): χώραν λαβεῖν] Refs 6th c.AD+] take a position, find one's place, ἕως ἂν χώραν λάβῃ [τὰ πράγματα] till they are brought into position, into order, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.37; οὐ διδοὺς ἑτέρῳ τόπον οὐδὲ χώραν διακονίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.62d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι χώραν νοήσεως ἡντινοῦν τὸ ἀγαθόν the Good cannot have any possibility of thinking, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.6.6 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; σοὶ ἀστρονομεῖν χ. your province is astronomy, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.15; ἐν τοῖς ἀτέχνοις χώραν ἔχει τὸ αὐτόματον 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.225D.: frequently in the phrase ὥρα καὶ χ.,] Refs 2nd c.AD+] time and place, ἐν ὁποία ἀξία φυτευθῆναι καὶ ὥρὰ καὶ χώρᾳ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 225c; ἐν ἄλλῃ καὶ χώρῃ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ χυμῶν” 14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς ὥρας καὶ χώρας καὶ διαίτας[[ [prev. work] 16, “Aph.” 3.3; ἥ τε τοῦ ἔτους ὥρα καὶ χ. καὶ φύσις τοῦ θεραπευομένου σώματος 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).399, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 1.10, 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 1.161, 180 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+] b. in metric, position of a foot in a verse, τὸ δακτυλικὸν δέχεται δακτύλους καὶ σπονδείους κατὰ πᾶσαν χ. [[ 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 7.1, compare 8.1; αἱ περιτταὶ χ. [prev. author] 5.1, 6.1. ] Refs 7th c.AD+]