μέγαρον

megaron

large room, hall

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 3
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Book IV 1
Chapter 15 1299a3–1300b12

1300a17
Book V 2
Chapter 5 1304b19–1305a36

1304b35
1305a24
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 2 1355b25–1358a35

1357b33

Dictionary (LSJ)

μέγαρον, τό, gen. pl. μεγαρέων Sophr. 6: I. large room, hall; esp. 1. the chief room in the Homeric palace, μ. πλεῖον δαιτυμόνων Od. 17.604, al. 2. womenʼs apartment, 18.198: pl., 17.569, 19.30. 3. bedchamber, 11.374. II. in pl., house, palace, freq. in Hom., ἐνὶ (ἐν) μεγάροισι Il. 1.396,418, al.: opp. ἐπʼ ἀγροῦ, Od. 22.47: later in sg., Pi. O. 6.2, P. 4.134. III. sanctuary, shrine, freq. in Hdt. (whouses the word in thissense only), 1.47,65, 2.143, 6.134. 2. tomb, Epigr. Gr.453.2 (Batanaea). IV. μέγαρα, τά, pits sacred to Demeter and Persephone, into which young pigs were let down in the Thesmophoria, Paus. 9.8.1, Porph. Antr. 6, Sch.Luc. DMeretr. 1:— also written μάγαρον, Men. 1031. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. mĕ`ārāh ‘cave’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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