χέρσος,
later Attic dialect χέρρος, ἡ, dry land, opposed to water, ἐπὶ χέρσου, opposed to ἐν πόντῳ, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.459, compare 15.495; κύματα μακρὰ κυλινδόμενα προτὶ χέρσον 9.147; λάϊγγας ποτὶ χ. ἀποπλύνεσκε θάλασσα 6.95; κῦμα.. βοάᾳ ποτὶ χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.394; κῦμα.. χέρσῳ ῥηγνύμενον μεγάλα βρέμει 4.425; χέρσον ἱκέσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.486, 542; ἐπὶ χέρσω 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 9.10; κατὰ χέρσον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 873 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 884 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χέρσῳ on or by land, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 977 (Lyric poetry), “Ag.” 558, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1066: proverbial, ἐν πόντῳ νᾶες, ἐνχέρσῳ πόλεμοι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.4, compare “N.” 1.62; πολλὰ.. ἐκ θαλάσσης, πολλὰ δ᾽ ἐκ χέρσου κακὰ γίγνεται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 707 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάνδοκον εἰς ἀφανῆ τε χ., of the realm of Hades, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 860 (Lyric poetry).—In 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] the gender cannot be determined, feminine [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 75.17 (uncertain reading), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 31 (_anapaest meter_), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.13.3, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.15, etc.: _plural_, ἐν ταῖς χέρσοις] Refs 5th c.BC+] on barren soils, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.6.4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] as adjective, χέρσος, ον, dry, firm, of land, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Εὐρώπαν ποτὶ χέρσον to the mainland of Europe, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.70; ἐν κονίᾳ χέρσῳ, opposed to πόντῳ, [prev. work] 9.43. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]