Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀγέλη • ‎(agélē) f ‎(genitive ἀγέλης); first declension

1. herd
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.281
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.678
   1. (any group, of people or animals) company, shoal
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 168
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 112
      • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1022
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 168
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 106
      • Oppian, Halieutica 3.639
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 1276
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 451.C
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 570.A.27
2. at Crete, bands or classes in which youth were trained from the age of seventeen until marriage
   • 400 BCE – 330 BCE, Ephorus, Universal History 64
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Lycurgus 16
   • Heraclides, On Politics 15

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: αγέλη ‎(agéli)

References

• ἀγέλη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγέλη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγέλη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀγέλη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀγέλη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀγέλη» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G34”, 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.
  • drove idem, page 254.
  • herd idem, page 397.