ἀγέλ-η, ἡ,
(ἄγω) herd, of horses, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.281; elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always of oxen and kine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.678, etc., compare βούνομος·] Refs 8th c.BC+]—also, any herd or company, συῶν ἀ. [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 168; ἀ. παρθένων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 112; μαινάδων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1022; πτηνῶν ἀγέλαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 168, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 106] Refs 8th c.BC+]; shoal of fish, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.639: _metaphorically_, πόνων ἀγέλαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1276:—also in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 451c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 570a27, etc., but rare in early Prose. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in Crete and at Sparta, bands in which boys were trained, [[ 4th c.BC: Ephorus Historicus 64, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 16, 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus “περὶ πολιτειῶν - fragment” 15, “GDI” 4952 (from Dreros), etc.; νέων ἀ. “epigram Gr.” 223.8 (from Miletus); ἀϊθέων [prev. work]239 (from Smyrna). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III ={ἀστρικαὶ σφαῖραι} [[ “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 43.6.] Refs]