μέγαρον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, gen. pl.<br><span class="bld">A</span> μεγαρέων Sophr.6:<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[large room]], [[hall]]; esp.<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[the chief room]] in the Homeric palace, μ. πλεῖον δαιτυμόνων Od.17.604, al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[women's apartment]], 18.198: pl., 17.569, 19.30.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[bedchamber]], 11.374.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in plural, [[house]], [[palace]], freq. in Hom., ἐνὶ (ἐν) μεγάροισι Il.1.396,418, al.: opp. <b class="b3">ἐπ' ἀγροῦ</b>, Od.22.47: later in sg., Pi.''O.''6.2, ''P.''4.134.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[sanctuary]], [[shrine]], freq. in Hdt. (whouses the word in thissense only), 1.47,65, 2.143, 6.134.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[tomb]], [[Epigr. Gr]].453.2 (Batanaea).<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[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'.)