Μεγᾰρ-εύς · Megar-eus — LSJ
citizen of Megara
citizen of Megara, Thgn. 23, etc.: pl. Μεγαρέες, -εῖς, -ῆς, Hdt. 1.59, etc.: prov., Μεγαρέων δάκρυα ‘crocodileʼs tears’ (because of the quantity of onions grown near Megara), Zen. 5.8.
The corpus record
Μεγᾰρ-εύς
*megareus · ὁ
citizen of Megara
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Where it lives
- History 41 · 2.74/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
- Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
- Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8 · 0.75/10k
- Histories 13 · 0.71/10k
- Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
- Hellenica 3 · 0.46/10k
- Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Μεγαρεύς · Megareus Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 473–479
- Μεγαρεῖς · Megareis Aristotle, Ars Poetica 3
- Μεγαρέας · Megareas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..14 (DIORISIS sentence 174)
- Μεγαρέας · Megareas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..17 (DIORISIS sentence 218)
- Μεγαρῆας · Megarēas Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
- Μεγαρῆας · Megarēas Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
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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.