LogeionPerseus analysis of ἀγορήν:
ἀγορά (assembly): fem acc sg (epic ionic)
LSJ entry
ἀγορά
ἀγορά [ᾰγ],
ᾶς,
Ion. ἀγορή,
ῆς,
ἡ, (
ἀγείρω):—
A. assembly,
esp. of the People,
opp. the Council of Chiefs, Il. 2.93,
Od. 2.69,
etc.; τοῖσιν δʼ οὔτʼ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (sc. Κυκλώπεσσι)
Od. 9.112;
ὀρθῶν ἑσταότων ἀ γένετʼ οὐδέ τις ἔτλη ἕζεσθαι Il. 18.246;
ἀ. Πυλάτιδες,
of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, S. Tr. 638,
cf. Ion Eleg.1.3;
μακάρων ἀ. Pi. I. 8(7).29,
cf. AB 210;
ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν,
Il. 1.54,
2.51;
ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι,
Il. 8.489,
Od. 9.171;
εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι,
8.12,
Il. 18.245;
ἀγορήνδε καθέζεσθαι Od. 1.372.—Not common in Prose, ἀγορὰν συνάγειν, συλλέγειν X. An. 5.7.3;
ποιῆσαι Aeschin. 3.27;
ἀγορὰς ποιεῖσθαι Hyp. Fr. 150:
of the assembly in Attic demes, D. 44.36,
IG 2.585,
al.; ἀ. συνέδριον φυλετῶν καὶ δημοτῶν AB 327:
in late Prose, ἀ. δικῶν προθεῖναι, καταστήσασθαι, =
Lat. conventus agere,
Luc. Bis Acc. 4,12:
meeting for games,
Pi. N. 3.14:
metaph., μυρμήκων ἀ. Luc. Icar. 19:
prov., θεῶν ἀ. ‘Babel’, Suid.,
etc. 2. market-place,
perh. not earlier than Hom.Epigr. 14.5
πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δʼ ἀγυιαῖς;
freq. in later authors, πρυμνοῖς ἀγορᾶς ἔπι Pi. P. 5.93;
θεοὶ . . ἀγορᾶς ἐπίσκοποι A. Th. 272;
μέση Τραχινίων ἀ. S. Tr. 424;
ἀγορᾷ οὐδὲ ἄστει δέχεσθαι Th. 6.44;
ὀλιγάκις . . ἀγορᾶς χραίνων κύκλον E. Or. 919;
οἱ ἐκ τῆς ἀ. market people, X. An. 1.2.18;
ἐξ ἀγορᾶς εἶ Ar. Eq. 181,
etc.; εἰς ἀ. ἐμβάλλειν to go into the forum,
i. e. be a citizen, Lycurg. 5;
ἐν τῇ ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι to trade in the market,
D. 57.31;
εἰς τὴν ἀ. χειροτονεῖν (opp. ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον)
‘for the market’,
Id. 4.26;
the Roman Forum,
D.H. 5.48.
2. market,
ἀγορὰν παρασκευάζειν Th. 7.40,
X. HG 3.4.11;
ἀ. παρέχειν Th. 6.44,
etc.; ἄγειν X. An. 5.7.33,
etc.; opp. ἀγορᾷ χρῆσθαι to have supplies,
ib.7.6.24;
τῆς ἀ. εἴργεσθαι Th. 1.67,
Plu. Per. 29;
ἀ. ἐλευθέρα,
i. e. καθαρὰ τῶν ὠνίων πάντων,
Arist. Pol. 1331a31,
cf. X. Cyr. 1.2.3;
opp. ἀ. ἀναγκαία Arist. Pol. 1331b11;
generally, provisions, supplies, PPetr. 3p.131 (iii B. C.),
PS 14.354
(iii B. C.),
al.; in pl., Nic.Dam.p.6.17 D.; ἀγορὰς περικόπτειν cut off supplies,
D.H. 10.43.
IV. as a mark of time, ἀ. πλήθουσα the forenoon,
when the market-place was full, ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης Hdt. 4.181;
πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς X. Mem. 1.1.10,
cf. SIG 695.38 (
Magn. Mae.); περὶ or ἀμφὶ ἀ. πλήθουσαν X. An. 2.1.7,
1.8.1;
ἐν ἀ. πληθούσῃ Pl. Grg. 469d,
cf. Th. 8.92;
also ἀγορῆς πληθώρη Hdt. 2.173,
7.223;
poet., ἐν ἀ. πλήθοντος ὄχλου Pi. P. 4.85;
πρὶν ἀ. πεπληθέναι Pherecr. 29:
ἀγορῆς διάλυσις the time just after mid-day,
when they went home from market, Hdt. 3.104,
cf.X. Oec. 12.1.