μέγαρον

μέγᾰρον, τό, gen. pl. μεγαρέων Sophr. 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 Hom., ἐνὶ (ἐν) μεγάροισι Il. 1.396, 418, al.: opp. ἐπʼ ἀγροῦ, Od. 22.47: later in sg., Pi. O. 6.2, P. 4.134.
  • III sanctuary, shrine, freq. in Hdt. (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, Paus. 9.8.1, Porph. Antr. 6, Sch. Luc. DMeretr. 1:— also written μάγαρον, Men. 1031. (For sense IV cf. Hebr. mĕ`ārāh ‘cave’.)

μέγαρον, τό, Gemach, Saal ; in der Od. der große Versammlungs- und Speisesaal der Männer, welcher das Hauptzimmer des Hauses war, aber auch der Arbeitssaal der Mägde, Od. 18.198, 19.60, 21.382 ; im plur. 2.94, 19.30 ; das Schlafgemach, 11.374 ; übh. Zimmer, u. bes. im plur. das ganze Haus, bes. das größere der Fürsten, Schloß, Palast, wie Ath. V.193d bemerkt : τῶν ἡρωϊκῶν οἴκων τοὺς μείζονας Ὅμηρος μέγαρα καλεῖ ; so in der Od. überall, ἐν μεγάροις, im Hause, daheim, mit dem Nebenbegriff friedlicher Ruhe im Ggstz des Krieges ; auch im Ggstz von ἐπʼ ἀγροῦ, Od. 22.47. So bei Pind. auch im sing., ἦλθον Πελία μέγαρον, P. 4.134, vgl. 280.

μέγαρον ², pl. τὰ μέγαρα oder μάγαρα waren in Athen unterirdische Wohnungen, welche man an einem Tage des Thesmophorienfestes der Demeter u. Persephone zu Ehren baute, u. in welche die jungen Ferkel, μυστηριακά od. μυστικὰ χοιρία, Ar. Ach. 747, 764, hineingelassen wurden ; vgl. Paus. 9.8.1 u. s. μεγαρίζω, auch Lobeck Aglaoph. p. 829. – Im Tempel zu Delphi hieß μέγαρον, auch μάγαρον, der heilige Raum, in welchem die Fragenden die Antwort des Orakels empfingen, Her. 1.47, 65. Auch bei anderen Tempeln der innerste Raum, das Allerheiligste, was sonst ἄδυτον, ἀνάκτορον heißt, Her. 2.141, 143, 169, 5.77, überall im sing. Vgl. aedes.

μέγαρον

-ου, τό.

• • 1

    The chief room of a house, the general living-room, the hall : ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἑκάστη πῦρ καιόντων Il. 8.520 : μέθυ νεῖμον πᾶσιν ἀνὰ μ. Od. 7.180. Cf. Od. 4.37, 300, Od. 7.230, Od. 11.420, Od. 16.343, Od. 21.229, etc.

    In pl. in the same sense : ὁμάδησαν ἀνὰ μέγαρα Od. 1.365. Cf. Od. 4.238, Od. 8.242, Od. 11.334, Od. 15.77, Od. 18.183, Od. 22.172, etc.

    Such a room in the abode of a god Il. 18.374.

    In the hut of Achilles Il. 24.647.

    Of the chief room in the hut of Eumaeus Od. 16.165.

    So in pl. : παρήμενος ἐν μεγάροισιν Od. 17.521.

    In pl. of such a room in the modest dwelling of Laertes Od. 24.392, 396, 412.

  • 2

    The house itself, one’s house or home : τρεῖς μοί (οἵ) εἰσι θύγατρες ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ Il. 9.144, 286. Cf. Il. 2.661, Il. 6.91, 272, 377, Il. 13.431, Il. 24.209 (at home) : ἴτω ἐς μ. πατρός Od. 1.276. Cf. Od. 1.270, Od. 4.744, Od. 7.65, Od. 13.377, Od. 16.341, Od. 22.370, etc.

    In pl. in the same sense : πατρὸς ἐν μεγάροισιν Il. 6.428. Cf. Il. 1.418, Il. 2.137, Il. 6.421, Il. 13.667, Il. 15.439, Il. 24.219, etc. : τρέφε ναυσικάαν ἐν μεγάροισιν Od. 7.12. Cf. Od. 1.269, Od. 3.213, Od. 6.62, Od. 11.68, Od. 15.231, Od. 21.30, etc.

    In pl. app. including the αὐλή: χῆνες ἐκέχυντο ἀθρόοι ἐν μεγάροις Od. 19.540. Cf. Od. 19.552.

    In pl. of the abodes of the gods Il. 11.76, Il. 21.475 : Od. 1.27.

  • 3

    A chamber or set of chambers appropriated to the lady of a house and her maidens, the women’s quarters (cf. ὑπερώϊον 2) : τὴν εὗρʼ ἐν μεγάρῳ Il. 3.125 (the same as the θάλαμος of 142), μεγάροιο διέσσυτο Il. 22.460 (the same as the μυχὸς δόμου of 440) : ἐς μ. καλέασα Od. 1.416, ἦλθον ἀμφίπολοι ἐκ μεγάροιο (i.e. from the part of it from which they had been summoned) Od. 18.198. Cf. Od. 18.185, 316, Od. 19.60, Od. 20.6, Od. 21.236 = 382, Od. 22.497, Od. 23.43.

    In pl. in the same sense : πηνελόπειαν ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἄνωχθι μεῖναι Od. 17.569. Cf. Il. 6.286 : Od. 2.94= Od. 24.129, Od. 19.16, 30= Od. 21.387, Od. 19.139, Od. 22.399.

μέγᾰρον (-ον, -ῳ, -ον; -ων, -οις.)

• • a hall, palace χρυσέας ὑποστάσαντες εὐτειχεῖ προθύρῳ θαλάμου κίονας ὡς ὅτε θαητὸν μέγαρον πάξομεν O. 6.2 τοῖσι μὲν ἐξεύχετʼ ἐν ἄστει Πειράνας σφετέρου πατρὸς ἀρχὰν καὶ βαθὺν κλᾶρον ἔμμεν καὶ μέγαρον O. 13.62 καί ἦλθον Πελία μέγαρον P. 4.134 ἐπέγνω μὲν Κυράνα καὶ τὸ κλεεννότατον μέγαρον Βάττου δικαιᾶν Δαμοφίλου πραπίδων P. 4.280 οὐκ ἔραμαι πολὺν ἐν μεγάρῳ πλοῦτον κατακρύψαις ἔχειν N. 1.31
  • b pl. pro s. οἵαν Βρομίου τελετὰν καὶ παρὰ σκᾶπτον Διὸς Οὐρανίδαι ἐν μεγάροις ἵσταντι Δ. 2. 8. αὐτίκα δʼ ἐκ μεγάρων Χίρωνα προσήνεπε φωνᾷ (sc. Ἀπόλλων, i. e. from his cave) P. 9.29

μέγαρον (μέγας): properly large room. —(1) the menʼs dining-hall, the chief room of the Homeric house. The roof was supported by columns, the light entered through the doors, the smoke escaped by an opening overhead and through loop - holes (ὀπαῖα) just under the roof. The cut, combined from different ancient representations, is designed to show the back part of the μέγαρον in the house of Odysseus, cf. plate III. for groundplan.—(2) the womenʼs apartment, behind the one just described, see plate III. G. Pl., Od. 19.16.—(3) the housekeeperʼs apartment in the upper story (ὑπερώιον), Od. 2.94.—(4) a sleeping-apartment, Od. 11.374.—(5) in wider signif., in pl., house, Il. 1.396.

μέγαρον μέγᾰρον, ου, τό,

• • Ia large room or chamber, esp. the hall, Od.
  • • 2the womenʼs apartment, Od.
  • IIin pl. a house, palace, like Lat. aedes, because the house consisted of many rooms, Hom.; ἐν μεγάροις at home, Hom.
  • IIIthe oracular chamber in the temple, the sanctuary, shrine, Hdt.; in this sense always, like Lat. aedes, in sg.