ὅριον

horion

boundary, limit

Appears 7 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 6
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Book VIII 3
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842e7
842e8
843b1
Book IX 2
Chapter ?

873c1
873d6
Book X 1
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909c4
Menexenus 1
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240b5

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὅριον, τό, A. = ὅρος, Dim. only in form, boundary, limit, Hp. Off. 3, Schwyzer 664.4 (Orchom. Arc., iv B.C.), Epigr.Gr. 978.12 (Philae), POxy. 2134.18 (ii A.D.): mostly in pl., boundaries, bounds, frontier, E. Tr. 375, D. 18.230, PCair.Zen. 251.3(iii B.C.), Supp.Epigr. 3.378B11 (Delph., ii/i B.C.) ; ἐπὶ τοῖς ὁ. on the frontier, Th. 2.12, And. 1.45 ; ὅρια κελεύθου limits of a road, i.e. the road itself, S. Fr. 721 (dub.); μὴ κινείτω γῆς ὅ. μηδείς Pl. Lg. 842e ; territories, LXXEx. 10.4, al. 2. Astrol., a subdivision of a zodiacal sign, appropriated to a planet, Ptol. Tetr. 43, S.E. M. 5.37, PMag.Lond. 46.48, PTeb. 277.15, Heph.Astr. 1.1, Man. 2.166,4.265. II. pl., rules, e.g. for the use of wine, Hp. Liqu. 5. III. ὅριον· τείχισμα, φραγμόν, Hsch.; so ὅρια καὶ σταυρώματα Th. 6.74 (restd. from Sch.).

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