μέγαρον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, gen. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> μεγαρέων <span class="bibl">Sophr.6</span>: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> [[large room]], [[hall]]; esp. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[the chief room]] in the Homeric palace, μ. πλεῖον δαιτυμόνων <span class="bibl">Od.17.604</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[women's apartment]], <span class="bibl">18.198</span>: pl., <span class="bibl">17.569</span>, <span class="bibl">19.30</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[bedchamber]], <span class="bibl">11.374</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in plural, [[house]], [[palace]], freq. in Hom., ἐνὶ (ἐν) μεγάροισι <span class="bibl">Il.1.396</span>,<span class="bibl">418</span>, al.: opp. <b class="b3">ἐπ' ἀγροῦ</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.22.47</span>: later in sg., <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>6.2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">P.</span>4.134</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[sanctuary]], [[shrine]], freq. in Hdt. (whouses the word in thissense only), <span class="bibl">1.47</span>,<span class="bibl">65</span>, <span class="bibl">2.143</span>, <span class="bibl">6.134</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">tomb, Epigr. Gr</b>.<span class="bibl">453.2</span> (Batanaea). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[μέγαρα]], [[τά]], [[pits]] sacred to Demeter and Persephone, into which young pigs were let down in the Thesmophoria, <span class="bibl">Paus.9.8.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Antr.</span>6</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DMeretr.</span>1</span>:— also written μάγαρον, <span class="bibl">Men.1031</span>. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. <b class="b2">mĕ`ārāh</b> 'cave'.)</span>