A.assembly, esp. of the People, opp. the Council of Chiefs, Il.2.93, Od.2.69, etc.; τοῖσιν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (sc. Κυκλώπεσσι) Od.9.112; “ὀρθῶν ἑσταότων ἀ γένετ᾽ οὐδέ τις ἔτλη ἕζεσθαι” Il.18.246; ἀ. Πυλάτιδες, of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, S.Tr.638, cf. Ion Eleg.1.3; “μακάρων ἀ.” Pi.I. 8(7).29, cf. AB210; ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν, Il.1.54, 2.51; ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι, Il.8.489, Od.9.171; εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι, 8.12, Il.18.245; “ἀγορήνδε καθέζεσθαι” Od.1.372.—Not common in Prose, “ἀγορὰν συνάγειν, συλλέγειν” X.An.5.7.3; “ποιῆσαι” Aeschin.3.27; “ἀγορὰς ποιεῖσθαι” Hyp.Fr.150: of the assembly in Attic demes, D.44.36, IG2.585, al.; “ἀ. συνέδριον φυλετῶν καὶ δημοτῶν” AB327: in late Prose, ἀ. δικῶν προθεῖναι, καταστήσασθαι, = Lat. conventus agere, Luc.Bis Acc. 4,12: meeting for games, Pi.N.3.14: metaph., “μυρμήκων ἀ.” Luc. Icar.19: prov., θεῶν ἀ. 'Babel', Suid., etc.
II. place of assembly, “τοὺς δ᾽ εὗρ᾽ εἰν ἀγορῇ” Il.7.382; “ἵνα σφ᾽ ἀ. τε θέμις τε” 11.807, cf.Od.6.266; pl., Od.8.16; “οὔτε . . εἰς ἀ. ἔρχεται οὔτε δίκας” Thgn. 268.
2. market-place, perh. not earlier than Hom.Epigr. 14.5 πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀγυιαῖς; freq. in later authors, “πρυμνοῖς ἀγορᾶς ἔπι” Pi.P.5.93; “θεοὶ . . ἀγορᾶς ἐπίσκοποι” A.Th. 272; “μέση Τραχινίων ἀ.” S.Tr.424; “ἀγορᾷ οὐδὲ ἄστει δέχεσθαι” Th.6.44; “ὀλιγάκις . . ἀγορᾶς χραίνων κύκλον” E.Or.919; οἱ ἐκ τῆς ἀ. market people, X.An.1.2.18; “ἐξ ἀγορᾶς εἶ” Ar.Eq.181, etc.; εἰς ἀ. ἐμβάλλειν to go into the forum, i. e. be a citizen, Lycurg.5; ἐν τῇ ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι to trade in the market, D.57.31; εἰς τὴν ἀ. χειροτονεῖν (opp. ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον) 'for the market', Id.4.26; the Roman Forum, D.H.5.48.
III. business of the ἀγορά:
1. public speaking, gift of speaking, mostly in pl., ἔσχ᾽ ἀγοράων withheld him from speaking, Il.2.275; οἱ δ᾽ ἀγορὰς ἀγόρευον ib.788, cf. Od.4.818; “ᾠδὴν ἀντ᾽ ἀγορῆς θέμενος” Sol.1.
2. market, “ἀγορὰν παρασκευάζειν” Th.7.40, X. HG3.4.11; “ἀ. παρέχειν” Th.6.44, etc.; “ἄγειν” X.An.5.7.33, etc.; opp. ἀγορᾷ χρῆσθαι to have supplies, ib.7.6.24; “τῆς ἀ. εἴργεσθαι” Th.1.67, Plu.Per.29; ἀ. ἐλευθέρα, i. e. καθαρὰ τῶν ὠνίων πάντων, Arist.Pol. 1331a31, cf. X.Cyr.1.2.3; opp. “ἀ. ἀναγκαία” Arist.Pol.1331b11; generally, provisions, supplies, PPetr.3p.131 (iii B. C.), PS14.354 (iii B. C.), al.; in pl., Nic.Dam.p.6.17 D.; ἀγορὰς περικόπτειν cut off supplies, D.H.10.43.
IV. as a mark of time, ἀ. πλήθουσα the forenoon, when the market-place was full, “ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης” Hdt.4.181; “πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς” X.Mem.1.1.10, cf. SIG695.38 (Magn. Mae.); περὶ or “ἀμφὶ ἀ. πλήθουσαν” X.An.2.1.7, 1.8.1; “ἐν ἀ. πληθούσῃ” Pl.Grg.469d, cf. Th.8.92; also “ἀγορῆς πληθώρη” Hdt.2.173, 7.223; poet., “ἐν ἀ. πλήθοντος ὄχλου” Pi.P.4.85; “πρὶν ἀ. πεπληθέναι” Pherecr.29: ἀγορῆς διάλυσις the time just after mid-day, when they went home from market, Hdt.3.104, cf.X.Oec.12.1.
V. marketday, = Lat. nundinae, D.H.7.58.
