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ἀγελαῖος , α, ον, (ἀγέλη)
A.belonging to a herd, in Hom. always with βοῦς, Il.11.729, Od.10.410, al., cf. S.Aj.175; “βοσκήματα” E.Ba.677; αἱ ἀ. τῶν ἵππων, i.e. brood-mares, X.Eq.5.8.
II. in herds or shoals, gregarious, “ἰχθύες” Hdt.2.93; ἀγελαῖα, τά, gregarious animals, Pl.Plt.264d; opp. μοναδικά, σποραδικά, Arist.HA487b34, Pol. 1256a23; πολιτικὸν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ζψ̂ον πάσης μελίττης καὶ παντὸς ἀ. ζψ́ου μᾶλλον ib.1253a8.
2. of the common herd, ἀ. ἄνθρωποι, opp. ἄρχοντες, Pl.Plt.268a; hence, common, ordinary, “ἀ. ἰσχάδες” Eup. 374; “ἄρτοι” Pl.Com.76; “κεραμίδες” SIG2587.209, cf. Ath.Mitt.22.182 (Lebad.):—“σοφισταί” Isoc.12.18, “νῆσοι” Philostr.Im.2.17; proparox. in this sense, Eust.1752.63.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 677
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.93
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.729
    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.410
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 18
    • Plato, Statesman, 264d
    • Plato, Statesman, 268a
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 175
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 5.8
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