The corpus record

μεγᾰλό-πολις

megalopolis

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Where it lives

Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k

What it meant

μεγᾰλό-πολις · megalo-polis — LSJ

epith. of great cities, αἱ μεγαλοπόλιες Ἀθᾶναι Pi. P. 7.1; μεγαλοπόλιες ὦ Συράκοσαι ib. 2.1; ἁ μ. Τροία E. Tr. 1291 (lyr.); Ἀθθίς Pae.Delph. 8; ἡ λαμπροτάτη μ. Ἀλεξάνδρεια PLips. 45.13 (iv A. D.); also of the κόσμος, Ph. 1.4, al.

In the wild

μεγαλόπολις · megalopolis Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 653)

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.

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