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 pl., [[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>

|auten=([[μέγας]]): [[properly]] [[large]] [[room]].—(1) the men's dining-[[hall]], the [[chief]] [[room]] of the Homeric [[house]]. The [[roof]] [[was]] supported by columns, the [[light]] entered [[through]] the doors, the [[smoke]] escaped by an [[opening]] overhead and [[through]] [[loop]]-holes (ὀπαῖα) [[just]] [[under]] the [[roof]]. The [[cut]], combined [[from]] [[different]] [[ancient]] representations, is designed to [[show]] the [[back]] [[part]] of the [[μέγαρον]] in the [[house]] of [[Odysseus]], cf. [[plate]] III. [[for]] groundplan.—(2) the women's [[apartment]], [[behind]] the [[one]] [[just]] described, see [[plate]] III. G. Pl., Od. 19.16.—(3) the [[housekeeper]]'s [[apartment]] in the [[upper]] [[story]] ([[ὑπερώιον]]), Od. 2.94.—(4) a sleeping-[[apartment]], Od. 11.374.—(5) in wider signif., in pl., [[house]], Il. 1.396.

|mdlsjtxt=μέγᾰρον, ου, τό,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[large]] [[room]] or [[chamber]], esp. the [[hall]], Od.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the women's [[apartment]], Od.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in pl. a [[house]], [[palace]], like Lat. [[aedes]], [[because]] the [[house]] consisted of [[many]] rooms, Hom.; ἐν μεγάροις at [[home]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> the [[oracular]] [[chamber]] in the [[temple]], the [[sanctuary]], [[shrine]], Hdt.; in [[this]] [[sense]] [[always]], like Lat. [[aedes]], in sg.