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ἄγροικος

agroikos

dwelling in the fields

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄγροικος · agroikos — LSJ

dwelling in the fields, countryman, rustic, boorish, rude

dwelling in the fields, ζῷα, opp. ὄρεια, Arist. HA 488b2; esp. of men, countryman, rustic, Ar. Nu. 47; in Attica, οἱ ἄ., = γεωμόροι (q. v.), Arist. Ath. 13.2, D.H. 2.8: mostly with the collat. sense of boorish, rude, Ar. Nu. 628, 646, etc., cf. Thphr. Char. 4; μέλος -ότερον Ar. Ach. 674; ἄ. σοφία Pl. Phdr. 229e, cf. Isoc. 5.82 (Comp.), Arist. EN 1128a9; of fortune, Apollod.Car. 5.14; ἄ. Δημοσθένης, of Dinarchus, D.H. Din. 8. Adv. -κως Ar. V. 1320: Comp. -οτέρως Pl. R. 361e, X. Mem. 3.13.1; -ότερ

II rustic

rustic, βίος Ar. Nu. 43.

2 common, dwelling in the country, boorish

of fruits, common, opp. γενναῖος, ὀπώρα Pl. Lg. 844d. (ἀγροῖκος dwelling in the country, ἄγροικος boorish, acc. to Ammon. Diff. 5, but this is very doubtful.)—Not found in early Ep. or Trag.

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