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authors; ' in the meantime, the following remarks are offered concerning the meaning
of the terms occurring in our lists. The specific meanings which these words seem
to bear in the Attic Stelai are given on p. 269.
1. dypoS (VI, 55; VII, 74). This word is frequently used in the literature in
antithesis with o6AtX or a'wrrv. In the Odyssey: "Your father abides here in the
country (aypw') and goes not down to the city." ? Similarly, in Plato, Lg., IX, 881 c:
"--- if the assault occur in the city --- the punishment shall be inflicted by the
astynomoi; and if it occur KMr' aypovS rS Xaopas, by the officers of the agronomoi."
In Lysias, XXXI, Against Philon, 8: " This man was banned from the city - - - and
for a time he lived Ev ayp4." In [Demosthenes], XLVII, Against Euergos and
Mnesiboulos, 63: --- went at once from the city Ebg a'ypov." In several places in
Lysias, I, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, the speaker uses agros in the sense of
'country.' 7
The word seems to be used, however, not only for the general sense of 'country,'
but for a field or farm which was in the country. So [Demosthenes], LIII, Against
Nikostratos, 6: " Three slaves ran away from him from his farm (Ef aypov) In
."'
Isaios, VI, Estate of Philoktemnon, 33: "- - - he sold ayp6v at Athmonon for seventyfive
minas to Antiphanes "; and VIII, Estate of Kiron, 35: "the property of Kiron
consisted of ayp6v at Phyla easily worth a talent --- "; and in XI, Estate of Hagnias,
42, the speaker states that the real property of Stratokles was divided into houses and
O ayp6S worth 12 minae. In Thucydides, II, 13, 1: Pericles - - - conceived a suspicion
that perhaps Archidamos might pass by rovi aypovS avrov and not lay them
waste." 8 Buck classifies dyp6S under the general heading of ' agriculture' and under
the sub-heading of ' field for cultivation.'
In our list, it is to be noted that a house may be situated on an agros," and the
agros, in turn, may be described as containing so many plethra of land.1' The meaning
of the word, then, would here seem to be ' farm ' or a ' field for cultivation ' in the
country."2
Op. cit., p. 246, note 9.
6 XI, 187-188: mrarrqp 8E Uos'; aVro0L 11wtvet
ayp,W oOVO 7AWOXV f KaTrpXrTat.
I
11, 13, 20, 22, 39.
8
J. E. Powell in his Lexicon to Herodotus, Cambridge, 1938, p. 3, defines &ypoc in I, 172, as the
cultivated land of a city, but the reference is clearly to country dwellings in the Milesian territory.
9 Op. cit., p. 489. Buck notes that Greek agros like Latin ager is often used in a wider sense
for 'open country' vs. 'town.' On page 1304, Buck indicates that it is the plural aypot (but also
singular in Homer) which is particularly used in the sense of 'country.'
10 VII, 73, 77.
"VII, 74.
12 The word occurs in an Ionian inscription of Erythrai (Athena, XX, 1908, pp. 167-169) where
Van Herwerden (Lexicon Graecum, Leyden, 1910, s.v.) translates it as 'cultus,' and Liddell-Scott-
Jones as 'tilled land.'