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ὀργ-άς (sc. γῆ), άδος, ἡ,
A.any well-watered, fertile spot of land, meadow-land, partially wooded, with or without cultivated fields, IG 12.325.18, E.Ba.340,445, El.1162 (lyr.), X.Cyn.9.2, AP6.41 (Agath.); ὑπ᾽ ὀργάδα τὰν Ἀχέροντος Hymn.Is. in Not.Arch.4.212.
2. rich tract of land sacred to the gods: such a tract between Athens and Megara, sacred to Demeter and Persephone, was specially called ἡ ὀ. or ἱερὰ ὀ., D.13.32, Call.Fr.35 P., Plu.Per.30, Paus.3.4.2, cf. IG22.204.8,16 ; similarly perh. ὀργή in Herod.4.46 (s.v.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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