μέγαρον

English (LSJ)

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 (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'.)