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πα^νήγυ^ρ-ις , Dor. πανα_γ- , εως, ἡ, (πᾶς, ἄγυρις)
A.general or national assembly, “ἐν πανηγύρει βουλευσόμεσθα” A.Ag.845; esp. a festal assembly in honour of a national god, “Δήμητρος ἁγνῆς καὶ Κόρης” Archil.120; “Ζηνὸς ἀμφὶ πανάγυριν” Pi.O.9.96; πανηγύριας πανηγυρίζειν, ποιήσασθαι, to hold such festivals, keep holy-days, Hdt.2.59, 58; “συναγαγεῖν” Isoc.4.1; “διαλύειν” X.Cyr.6.1.10; “ἐς π. θεωρεῖν” Ar.Pax342; θεωρίαι ἐς τὰς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι π. Decr. ap. D.18.91; “Ὀλυμπίαζε εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων π. ἐπανιών” Pl.Hp.Mi.363c; in Caria, PCair.Zen.341 (a）11 (iii B. C.); in Egypt, PHib.27.76 (iii B. C.), etc.; “ἐν ταῖς π. καὶ δείξεσι τῶν σοφιστῶν” Phld.Rh.2.256S.; “ἁμίλλαις ἱππικαῖς καὶ πανηγύρει προσκαθήμενος” Jul.Or.1.39c; “π. ἐμπορικόν τι πρᾶγμα” Str.10.5.4, cf. CIG4474.35 (Baetocaece), Prisc.p.277 D.
2. any assembly, “θεῶν ἅδε πανάγυρις” A. Th.220 (lyr.); νεοσσῶν, φίλων, E.Heracl.239, HF1283.
3. metaph., π. ὀφθαλμῶν feast for the eyes, Ael.VH3.1, cf. Lib.Or.59.145; τὸν . . Ἔχετον χρυσὸν ἀποδείξων καὶ π. destined to exhibit E. as gold and a feast (by comparison with himself), Eun.Hist.p.236D.
b. in bad sense, παίγνιον ὁ βίος καὶ πλάνη καὶ π. Vett. Val.246.2.
II. people assembled, τῇ π. δέος ἐγένετο μὴ . . Th.5.50: generally, crowd, audience, “ὅταν ᾖ π.” Thphr.Char.6.7.
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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