μέγαρον
megaron
large room, hall
Appears 299 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
μέγαρον, τό, gen. pl. μεγαρέων 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 , ἐνὶ (ἐν) μεγάροισι Il. 1.396,418, al.: opp. ἐπʼ ἀγροῦ, Od. 22.47: later in sg., O. 6.2, P. 4.134. III. sanctuary, shrine, freq. in (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, 9.8.1, Antr. 6, Sch. DMeretr. 1:— also written μάγαρον, 1031. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. mĕ`ārāh ‘cave’.)
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