ἀγοραῖος (agoraios)

Where it lives

Oeconomica II 4 · 8.51/10k
Economics 4 · 6.45/10k
Knights 4 · 4.5/10k
Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Politics 8 · 1.22/10k
Acts 2 · 1.11/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀγοραῖος · agoraios — LSJ

in, of, belonging to the ἀγορά, guardian of popular assemblies, patron of traffic

in, of, or belonging to the ἀγορά, Ζεὺς Ἀ. as guardian of popular assemblies, Hdt. 5.46, A. Eu. 973 (lyr.), E. Heracl. 70; Ἑρμῆς Ἀ. as patron of traffic, Ar. Eq. 297, cf. IPE 12.128 (Olbia), IG 12(8).67 (Thasos), Paus. 1.15.1; Ἄρτεμις Ἀ. at Olympia, Id. 5.15.4; Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀ. at Sparta, Id. 3.11.9; generally, θεοὶ ἀ. A. Ag. 90.

2 details of market-business

of things, τὰ ἀ. details of market-business, Pl. R. 425c.

II frequenting the market, those who frequented the ἀγορά, traders, sutlers, the common sort, low fellows, the baser sort

frequenting the market, ὁ ἀ. ὄχλος X. HG 6.2.23; δήμου εἶδος Arist. Pol. 1291b19, etc.; τὸ ἀ. πλῆθος . . τὸ περὶ τὰς πράσεις καὶ τὰς ὠνὰς καὶ τὰς ἐμπορίας καὶ καπηλείας διατρῖβον ib. 1291a4:—ἀγοραῖοι (with or without ἄνθρωποι), οἱ, those who frequented the ἀγορά, Hdt. 1.93, 2.141; opp. ἔμποροι, X. Vect. 3.13, but = traders (i.e. sutlers), Ael. Tact. 2.2:—hence, the common sort, low fellows, Ar. Ra. 1015, Pl. Prt. 347c, Thphr. Char. 6.2; of agitators, Act.Ap. 17.5, Plu. Aem. 38: Comp., the baser

2 vulgar, common

of things, vulgar, σκώμματα Ar. Pax 750; τοὺς νοῦς ἀ. ἧττον . . ποιῶ Id. Fr. 471; ἀ. φιλία (opp. ἐλευθέριος) Arist. EN 1162b26; common, ἄρτοι Lync. ap. Ath. 3.109d.

III proper to the ἀγορά, skilled in, suited for forensic speaking, court-day, assize, in forensic style

generally, proper to the ἀγορά, skilled in, suited for forensic speaking, Plu. Per. 11, al.:—ἀγοραῖος (sc. ἡμέρα) court-day, assize, τὰς ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι Str. 13.4.12; ἄγειν τὴν ἀ. Epist. Galb. ap. J. AJ 14.10.21, cf. Act.Ap. 19.38, IGRom. 4.790. Adv. -ως in forensic style, Plu. CG 4, Ant. 24.

2 notary, pleader, advocate

ἀγοραῖος, ὁ, = tabellio, notary, Aristid. Or. 50(26).94, Edict.Diocl. 7.41, Gloss.; also, pleader, advocate, in pl., Philostr. VA 6.36.

b market-day, vulgar, public speaker

ἀγοραῖος, ἡ, market-day, IGRom. 4.1381 (Lydia). (The distn. ἀγόραιος vulgar, ἀγοραῖος public speaker, drawn by Ammon., etc., is prob. fictitious.)

In the wild

ἀγοραίων · agoraiōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 88–91
ἀγοραῖος · agoraios Aeschylus, Eumenides 973
ἀγοραίους · agoraious Aristophanes, Frogs 1013–1017
ἀγοραῖος · agoraios Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 208)
ἀγοραῖον · agoraion Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 272)
ἀγοραίου · agoraiou Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 338)

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