Standard_Etymology_agyia_Egypt







Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by:
Sir Henry Stuart Jones; with the assistance of: Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ἄγ-υια , ᾶς, ἡ ~ [ ag-yia , as, e ] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~[To: 'Aigyptos' ('Egypt') =>
A. street, highway, | BACK => | chiefly in pl., Il.5.642; σκιόωντό τε πᾶσαι ἀ. Od.2.388, etc.; of the paths of the sea, 11.12; ἀγυιαῖς in the streets, Hom.Epigr.14.5, cf. Pi.P.2.58, B.3.16, S.OC715, Ant.1136, E. Ba.87 (all lyr.): esp. in the phrase “κνισᾶν ἀγυιάς” Ar.Eq.1320, Av. 1233, D.21.51. . Also, in the phrase: “ἐν ἀγυιᾷ,” of documents executed in public by a notary, POxy. 722.12 (i A.D.).
2. collection of streets, city, Pi.O.9.34, N.7.92; “πολύπυρος ἀ.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ἀγυιο-πλαστέω , (πλάσσω) ~ [ agyio-plasteo, (plasso) ]
A. to build in streets or rows, Lyc.601.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ἀγυι-εύς, έως, ὁ, a name of Apollo [the Greek: 'God of Reason'], as
A. guardian of the streets and highways, E.Ph.631, Orac. ap. D.21. 52, IG3.159, al.
2. pointed pillar, set up as his statue or altar at the street-door, Ar.V.875, Pherecr.87, Dieuchid.2; “Ἀγυιεὺς βωμός” S.Fr.370.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ἀγυιό-πεζα Κουρῆτις, ἡ, mystical name for Pythagorean triad, Nicom. ap. Phot.Bibl.143B.

~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~| Back to: 'hieroglyph' => |




]