- μέγαρον
- μέγᾰρον, 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 ([place name] 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 [full] μάγαρον, Men.1031. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. mĕ`ārāh 'cave'.)
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