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ἀγρό-τερος , α, ον, (ἀγρός; properly opp. ὀρέσ-τερος) poet. for ἄγριος, in Hom. always of
A.wild animals, ἡμίονοι, σύες, αἶγες, Il.2.852, 12.146, Od.17.295; “ἀγροτέρης ἐλάφοιο” Hes.Sc.407; “φὴρ ἀ.” Pi.P.3.4: abs., “ἀγρότεροι” Theoc.8.58; “ἀ. καὶ νέποδες” AP6.11 (Satyr.).
2. of countrymen, AP9.244 (Apollonid.), APl.4.235 (Id.).
3. of plants, wild, AP9.384.8, cf. Nic. Th.711, Coluth.111.
II. (ἄγρα) fond of the chase, huntress, of the nymph Cyrene, Pi.P.9.6: metaph., “μέριμνα ἀ.” Id.O.2.60.
2. pr. n. Ἀγροτέρα, Artemis the huntress, Il.21.471, X.Cyn.6.13; worshipped at Agra in Attica, IG2.467, Paus.1.19.6; at Sparta and elsewhere, X.HG4.2.20, Ar.Eq.660, etc.
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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