Agorai

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of agora form-of, plural

    "The Phaiacians have many agorai (7.43–45), but at least one built around a handsome shrine of Poseidon and surrounded by a wall of quarried stones, and one phrase suggests that an agora would have regular places in which to sit."

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"The Phaiacians have many agorai (7.43–45), but at least one built around a handsome shrine of Poseidon and surrounded by a wall of quarried stones, and one phrase suggests that an agora would have regular places in which to sit."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γοραί (ăgoraí).

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