μεγᾰλ-ήγορος · megal-ēgoros — LSJ
talking big, vaunting
talking big, vaunting, A. Th. 565 (lyr.), X. Cyr. 7.1.17. Adv. -ρως App. Hisp. 19, Mith. 70.
2 lofty, magniloquent
lofty, magniloquent, Longin. 8.4.
The corpus record
μεγᾰλ-ήγορος
megalegoros
talking big, vaunting
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Where it lives
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μεγαληγόρων · megalēgorōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 563–565
- μεγαλήγορος · megalēgoros Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 3547)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.