τέμεν-ος, εος, τό,
[[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus ] Refs 4th c.AD+] nominative and accusative singular τέμενες [[ “IG” 5(2).432.31,42 (Megalopolis, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect genitive singular τεμένηος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 152 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]: (τέμνω):—a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, καὶ μέν οἱ [Βελλεροφόντῃ] Αύκιοι τ. τάμον ἔξοχον ἄλλων καλὸν φυταλιῆς καὶ ἀρούρης, ὄφρα νέμοιτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.194, compare 20.184, 391 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. περικαλλὲς.. πεντηκοντόγυον [[ 9.578, compare 12.313; τ. βασιλήϊον 18.550; δμῶες Ὀδυσσῆος τ. μέγα κοπρίσσοντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.299, compare 6.293: in _plural_, τεμένεα 11.185; τεμένη, μέρος τιμῆς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a35. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, precinct, ἔνθα τέ οἱ τ. βωμός τε θυήεις [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.48, compare 2.696, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.19, “IG” 12.94.29, etc.; τὸ τ. τῶν ἡρῴων “Test.Epict.” 2.13 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in it stood the temple or shrine, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.112, 155, 3.142; Πρωτεσίλεω τάφος τε καὶ τ. περὶ αὐτόν [prev. author] 9.116: hence the Pythian race-course is called a τέμενος, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.33; Syracuse is the τ. Ἄρεος [prev. work] 2.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the sacred valley of the Nile is the Νείλοιο πῖον τ. Κρονίδα [[[prev. work] 4.56; the lake formed by the Cephisus is the τ. Καφισίδος [prev. work] 12.27 ] Refs]; the Acropolis is the ἱερὸν τ. (of Pallas), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 483 (Lyric poetry): poetry also, τέμενος αἰθέρος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 365; ἀνέμων 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μαραθὼν σῆς ἀρετῆς τ. [[ “IG” 14.1185 (from Rome)] Refs]; τρόπαια στησάμενοι Διὸς.. τέμενος to be a grove of Zeus, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 211 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sacred grones, [[ hymnus ad Venerem 267. ] Refs]