4.4.1
Logeion
Perseus analysis of μεγάροισι:
μέγαρον (large room, hall): neut dat pl (epic ionic aeolic)
LSJ entry
μέγᾰρον
μέγαρον
,
τό
,
gen.
pl.
μεγαρέων
Sophr. 6
:
I.
large
room,
hall
;
esp.
1.
the
chief
room
in
the
Homeric
palace,
μ.
πλεῖον
δαιτυμόνων
Od. 17.604
,
al.
2.
womenʼs
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.
ἐπʼ
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’.)