κλῆρον (kleron)

κλῆρον is an Ancient Greek form of κλῆρος, meaning “lot; allotment”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 217 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.162: οἳ Τεγέην καὶ κλῆρον Ἀφειδάντειον ἔναιον,

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 2.10.2·2: … ουδῆς εἶναι κοινά, λόγους, προπόσεις, φιλοφροσύνας, παυσώμεθα τὰς Μοίρας ἀτιμάζοντες; καὶ τὸν τῆς τύχης παῖδα κλῆρονʼ ὡς Εὐριπίδης φησίν, ὃς οὔτε πλούτῳ νέμων οὔτε δόξῃ τὸ πρωτεῖον, ἀλλʼ ὅπως ἔτυχεν ἄλλως ἄλλοτε συμφερόμενος τὸ …

Plato, Laws 3.690: … ων ἀρχὴν ἀλλʼ οὐ βίαιον πεφυκυῖαν. ὀρθότατα λέγεις. θεοφιλῆ δέ γε καὶ εὐτυχῆ τινα λέγοντες ἑβδόμην ἀρχήν, εἰς κλῆρόν τινα προάγομεν, καὶ λαχόντα μὲν ἄρχειν, δυσκληροῦντα δὲ ἀπιόντα ἄρχεσθαι τὸ δικαιότατον εἶναί φαμεν. ἀληθέστα …

All forms of κλῆρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.