ἀρ-οτήρ [ᾰ], ῆρος, ὁ,
plougher, husbandman, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.542, 23.835, 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 335J., 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 104, etc.: in Prose, Σκύθαι ἀροτῆρες, opposed to νομάδες, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17, compare 191, 1.125, 7.50. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 as adjective, βοῦς ἀροτήρ steer for ploughing, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 405, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 132, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 5, “OGI” 519.21 (Asia Minor, 3rd c.AD), etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁλκός[[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 3.192; τένων 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Hymni” 40.8. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II metaphorically, begetter, father, τέκνων[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 135 (Lyric poetry); εὐτεκνίης “IG” 14.1615.] Refs 5th c.BC+]