Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon

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Corpus	Words	Max. Inst.	Freq./10K	Min. Inst.	Freq./10K
Greek Prose	4172940	828	1.98	469	1.12
Greek Poetry	671088	151	2.25	90	1.34
Greek Texts	4844028	979	2.02	559	1.15
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: agorêthen	2: Pulaia	3: speiropôlis	4: dêmôphelês	5: hêmikuklios
Latin	1: contio	2: circum foraneus	3: agon	4: subinde	5: agonista
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Some Words that Regularly Appear with agora
In Greek Prose (237 total):	agoranomos	ônios	archeion	parakomizô	tamieion
In Greek Poetry (8 total):	kaleô	Achaios	eimi	naus	megas
In Greek Texts (268 total):	agoranomos	ônios	archeion	parakomizô	tamieion
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agora [ageirô] [boulê]

I. an assembly of the people, opp. to the Council of Chiefs, Hom.: --kathizein agorên to hold an assembly, opp. to luein ag. to dissolve it; agorênde kaleein, kêrussein, Hom.; so, agoran sunagein, sullegein Xen.

II. the place of Assembly, Hom.; used not only for debating, trials, and other public purposes, but also as a market-place, like the Roman Forum, attic; but to lounge in the market was held to be disreputable, cf. agoraios.

III. the business of the agora, public speaking, gift of speaking, mostly in pl., Hom.

IV. things sold in the agora, the market, Lat. annona; agoran paraskeuazein to hold a market, Thuc.

V. as a mark of time, agora plêthousa or agoras plêthôrê the forenoon, when the market-place was full, Hdt.; opp. to agorês dialusis, the time just after mid-day, when they went home, id=Hdt.

This text is based on the following book(s):
Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.
ISBN: 0199102066

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