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μέγα^ρον , τό, gen. pl.
A.“μεγαρέων” Sophr.6:
I. large room, hall; esp.
1. the chief room in the Homeric palace, “μ. πλεῖον δαιτυμόνων” Od.17.604, al.
2. women's apartment, 18.198: pl., 17.569, 19.30.
3. bedchamber, 11.374.
II. in pl., house, palace, freq. in Hom., “ἐνὶ （ἐν） μεγάροισι” Il.1.396,418, al.: opp. ἐπ᾽ ἀγροῦ, Od.22.47: later in sg., Pi.O.6.2, P.4.134.
III. sanctuary, shrine, freq. in Hdt. (whouses the word in thissense only), 1.47,65, 2.143, 6.134.
2. tomb, Epigr. Gr.453.2 (Batanaea).
IV. μέγαρα, τά, pits sacred to Demeter and Persephone, into which young pigs were let down in the Thesmophoria, Paus.9.8.1, Porph.Antr.6, Sch.Luc.DMeretr.1:— also written μάγαρον , Men.1031. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. mĕ`ārāh 'cave'.)
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.47
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.143
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.134
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.396
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.569
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.604
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.47
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.374
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.30
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.8.1
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.198
    • Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1
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