ἄγρα

Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓́γρη (ágrē) – Ionic

Etymology

From ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ᾰ̓́γρᾱ • (ágrā) f (genitive ᾰ̓́γρᾱς); first declension

1. a catching, hunting, chase
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.330
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.306
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 885
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 823E
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 880
   1. a way of catching
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.81
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.70
2. that which is taken in hunting, quarry, prey
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 442
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 148
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 64
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 517
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.73
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 5:9
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 322

References

• ἄγρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄγρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄγρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄγρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
• ἄγρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G61 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • booty idem, page 89.
  • catch idem, page 118.
  • chase idem, page 126.
  • game idem, page 353.
  • hunt idem, page 410.
  • prey idem, page 639.
  • prize idem, page 642.
  • pursuit idem, page 659.
  • quarry idem, page 663.
  • spoil idem, page 803.
  • sport idem, page 804.