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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

  • ἥξει δὴ Σιμόεντα καὶ δίνασ ἀργυροειδεῖσ ἄγυρισ Ἑλλάνων στρατιᾶσ ἀνά τε ναυσὶν καὶ σὺν ὅπλοισ Ἴλιον ἐσ τὸ Τροίασ Φοιβήιον δάπεδον, τὰν Κασάνδραν ἵν’ ἀκούω ῥίπτειν ξανθοὺσ πλοκάμουσ χλωροκόμῳ στεφάνῳ δάφνασ κοσμηθεῖσαν, ὅταν θεοῦ μαντόσυνοι πνεύσωσ’ ἀνάγκαι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, strophe 11)
  • ῥητόρων τε ἦν ἄγυρισ τῶν κυνικῶν κατ’ οὐδὲν ἀπολειπομένη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 2 1:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ Ἐπικουρείῳ συμποσίῳ κολάκων ἐστὶν ἄγυρισ ἀλλήλουσ ἐπαινούντων, τὸ δὲ Πλάτωνοσ πλῆρέσ ἐστιν μυκτηριστῶν ἀλλήλουσ τωθαζόντων τὸν γὰρ περὶ Ἀλκιβιάδου λόγον σιωπῶ, παρὰ δ’ Ὁμήρῳ συγκεκρότηται τὰ σώφρονα συμπόσια, καὶ ποτε μὲν ἐπῄνεσέ τισ φήσασ πρὸσ τὸν Μενέλαον ὡσ οὐ τολμᾷ λέγειν ἄντα σέθεν, τοῦ νῶι θεοῦ ὣσ τερπόμεθ’ αὐδῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 121)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ εἰσ τοῦτο τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐν τῇ πόλει συνηθροισμένον χρημάτων πολλῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν παράθεσισ, ἣν Ἄγυρισ ἠθροίκει πεφονευκὼσ τοὺσ εὐπορωτάτουσ τῶν πολιτῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 95 6:1)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἄγυρισ πρῶτον μὲν πάσῃ τῇ Διονυσίου δυνάμει σῖτον καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα ἦν χρεία προθύμωσ ἐδωρήσατο, καὶ πανδημεὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἐξαγαγὼν ἐστράτευσε μετὰ Διονυσίου καὶ κοινῇ πρὸσ Καρχηδονίουσ διεπολέμει. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 95 8:1)

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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