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ἄγυρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγυρις

Structure: ἀγυρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: aeolic form of a)gora/

Sense

  1. a gathering, crowd

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἷξον δ’ ἐσ Πυλίων ἀνδρῶν ἄγυρίν τε καὶ ἕδρασ, ἔνθ’ ἄρα Νέστωρ ἧστο σὺν υἱάσιν, ἀμφὶ δ’ ἑταῖροι δαῖτ’ ἐντυνόμενοι κρέα τ’ ὤπτων ἄλλα τ’ ἔπειρον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 5:3)
  • ὡσ πρὸσ τοὺσ δυνάστασ Ἄγυρίν τε τὸν Ἀγυρηναῖον καὶ Νικόδημον τὸν Κεντοριπῖνον φιλίαν συνέθετο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, 36)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα εἰσ τὴν τῶν Σικελῶν χώραν πλεονάκισ στρατεύσασ Μέναινον μὲν καὶ Μοργαντῖνον εἷλε, πρὸσ Ἄγυριν δὲ τὸν Ἀγυριναίων τύραννον καὶ Δάμωνα τὸν δυναστεύοντα Κεντοριπίνων, ἔτι δ’ Ἑρβιταίουσ τε καὶ Ἀσσωρίνουσ συνθήκασ ἐποιήσατο· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 78 10:1)
  • παραγενόμενοσ δ’ ἐγγὺσ τῶν πολεμίων διεπρεσβεύσατο πρὸσ Ἄγυριν τὸν δυναστεύοντα τῶν Ἀγυριναίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 95 5:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ Διονύσιοσ μετ’ ὀλίγων εἰσελθὼν ἐντὸσ τοῦ τείχουσ ἔπεισε τὸν Ἄγυριν συμμαχῆσαι γνησίωσ, καὶ πολλὴν ἐπηγγείλατο χώραν τῆσ ὁμόρου δωρήσεσθαι κατορθωθέντοσ τοῦ πολέμου. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 95 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a gathering

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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