Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓γορᾰ́ζω • ‎(agorázō)

1. (intransitive) to be in the market, to frequent it
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.35
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.!64
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 196.A.5
   • Comica Adespota 710
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.51
2. (transitive) to buy in the market, buy, purchase
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 625
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.10
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 984
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.14
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Polycles 25
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Lacritus 19
3. (intransitive) to haunt the market, lounge there, as a mark of idle fellows
   • 600 BCE – 300 BCE, Corinna, Collected Works 34
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 103
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1373
   • 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 2.14

Inflection

Related terms

• ἀγορεύω ‎(agoreúō)

Descendants

• Greek: αγοράζω ‎(agorázo)

References

• ἀγοράζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγοράζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀγοράζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀγοράζω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀγοράζω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G59”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979