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ἔγ-κτησις , Dor. ἔγ-κτα_σις , εως, ἡ,
A.tenure of land in a country or district by a person not belonging to it, X.HG5.2.19 (pl.); the right of holding such property, freq. granted as a privilege or reward to foreigners, ἔγκτασιν γᾶς καὶ οἰκιᾶν Decr.Byz. ap. D.18.91, cf. IG5(1).4.12 (Sparta), etc.; εἶναι δὲ αὐτῷ οἰκίας ἔγκτησιν ib.22.53.
2. estate, property, LXX Le.25.13, etc.; βιβλιοθήκη ἐγκτήσεων register of properties, BGU76 (ii A. D.), etc.
3. acquisition of territory, Plb.28.20.8 (prob. l.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 91
    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 25.13
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.19
    • Polybius, Histories, 28.20.8
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