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ἄγρα , Ion. ἄγρη , ἡ,
A.hunting, the chase, (never in Il.), “ἄγρην ἐφέπειν” Od.12.330; “χαίρουσι δέ τ᾽ ἀνέρες ἄγρῃ” 22.306; “ἐς ἄγρας ἰέναι” E.Supp. 885; “ἄ. ἀνθρώπων” Pl.Lg.823e; “ἁλιαδᾶν ἔχων ἀΰπνους ἄγρας” S.Aj. 880 (lyr.).
2. way of catching, Pi.N.3.81, Hdt.2.70.
II. quarry, prey, Hes.Th.442; “ἄγραν ὤλεσα” A.Eu.148 (lyr.); “εὔκερως ἄ.” S.Aj. 64, cf. 407 (pl.); “Μελέαγρε, μελέαν γάρ ποτ᾽ ἀγρεύεις ἄ.” E.Fr.517; game, Hdt.1.73, etc.; of fish, draught, take, Ev.Luc.5.9: metaph., “δορὸς ἄγρα” A.Th.322 (lyr.).
III. Ἄγρα, ἡ, title of Artemis at Athens, Pl.Phdr.229c; τὰ ἐν Ἄγρας (sc. μυστήρια) Paus. Gr.Fr.13; “τὰ πρὸς Ἄγραν” IG2.315; μήτηρ ἐν Ἄγρας ib.273:—also Ἄγραι , αἱ, the precinct of Artemis Agra, Paus.1.19.6, St. Byz., AB334, etc. (With ἄγρα : ἄγρια cf. θήρα : θηρία.)
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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