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Headword:
*)agora/
Adler number: alpha,299
Translated headword: agora, assembly, market-place
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the [sc. place of] assembly, whence Nestor [is] an
a)gorhth/s ['
agora-man'];[1] also the place where the wares are sold, and the wares themselves.
*)agora/: h( e)kklhsi/a, o(/qen o( *ne/stwr a)gorhth/s: kai\ o( to/pos, e)/nqa pipra/sketai ta\ w)/nia, kai\ au)ta\ ta\ w)/nia.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 21, where the phrase 'in the
agora' occurs (web address 1).
For the various senses of
a)gora/, see LSJ entry at web address 2.
[1]
Homer uses this term of Nestor at
Iliad 1.248 etc.; see also
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1057; and cf.
alpha 313.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; epic; mythology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2001@21:14:22.
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