[Meaning] streets, alleys, or long roads; [sc. so called] from their not having limbs and offshoots and bends.[1] But streets [amphoda] have exits from each side and differ in this respect.
Some give aguias [i.e. the accusative plural form] an acute accent, treating it as feminine like ta\s o(dou/s; but better to use the circumflex, as if from [contracted, and masculine] agui-e-as. But a)guieu/s, ending in an acute, is a pillar set up in front of the doors. Some say these pillars belong to Apollo, some to Dionysus, some to both. So the complete form is a)guieu/s, and the accusative [sc. plural] a)guie/as, contracted to a)guia=s. It is characteristically Doric. But there might be some Attic speakers saying aguieis for the altars in front of the house, as Sophocles says when transferring Athenian customs to Troy: "the altar by the door gleams, smoky with fire and drops of myrrh and barbarian perfumes."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] Aguieus, the pointed pillar by courtyard doors, sacred to Apollo, or the god himself. Pherecrates in Krapataloi [writes]: "o master Aguieus, remember me in these matters."[3]