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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[open]] [[court]] before the [[house]], [[courtyard]], Il.4.433, 11.774, ''SIG''1044.17 (Halic., iv/iii B. C.), etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[steading]] for [[cattle]], αὐλῆς [[ὑπεράλλομαι|ὑπεράλμενον]] Il.5.138, cf. Od.14.5.<br><span class="bld">II</span> later, [[court]] or [[quadrangle]], round which the house was built, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.77, Ar.''V.''131, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Protagoras|Prt.]]'' 311a, etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> generally, [[court]], [[hall]], Ζηνὸς αὐ. Od.4.74, cf. Il.6.247; τὴν Διὸς αὐλήν [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''122 (lyr.); [[αὐλὴ νεκύων]] [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Alcestis|Alc.]]''260 (lyr.); [[court]] of a [[temple]], ἱεροῦ ''IG''22.1299.28 (Eleusis, iii B. C.), cf. ib.1126.35, [[LXX]] ''Ps.''83(84).3; any [[dwelling]], [[abode]], [[chamber]], S.''Ant.''946 (lyr.), etc.; of a [[cave]], Id.''Ph.''153 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἀγρόνομοι αὐλαί</b> [[home]]s of [[dweller]]s in the [[wild]], Id.''Ant.''786 (lyr.); later, [[country-house]], D.H.6.50.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b3">ἡ αὐλή</b> [[the Court]], αὐλὰς [[θεραπεύειν]] Men.897, Diph.97, ''Com.Adesp.''145, cf. Plb.5.26.9; <b class="b3">οἱ περὶ τὴν αὐλήν</b> the [[courtier]]s, ib.36.1, cf. ''OGI''735.4 (ii B. C.), ''Inscr.Mus.Alex.''31; at Rome, Arr.''Epict.''1.10.3; ἡ [[βασίλειος]] αὐ. Hdn.3.11.7. (Wrongly expld. as [[τόπος]] [[διαπνεόμενος]] (cf. [[αὐλός]]) by Ath.5.189b.)