πεδίον, τό,
(πέδον) plain, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus mostly _sing._, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.222, +others: in _plural_, 12.283, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 388, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν πεδίῳ on a fertile plain, opposed to ἐν πέτραις, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 719. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b metaphorically, of the sea, δελφινοφόρον πεδίον πόντου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 150 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πόντου π. Αἰγαῖον[[ Ion Trag. 60; π. πλόϊμα 5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 89. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 frequently with genitive or adjective of particular plains (mostly in singular), πεδίον Αἰσώπου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 297 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ Τροίας π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1435 (but τὰ Τ. π. 1376) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ Θήβης π. [[ [prev. author] “OC” 1312 ] Refs]; Καϋστρίων π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ Κιρραῖον π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.107 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ Θετταλικὰ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ Ἄρειον π., = Latin [[ “Campus” Martius, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.59. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2.b especially the plain of Attica, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.842 C 7, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.59, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.55, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 5.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 ἱππέας εἰς π. προκαλεῖσθαι, proverbial of challenging persons to do that in which they excel, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 183d, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 268. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]