ἀγοραῖος [ᾰγ], ον,
(feminine -αία epithet of Artemis and Athena, see below):— in, of, or belonging to the ἀγορά, Ζεὺς Ἀ. as guardian of popular assemblies, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.46, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 973 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 70] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἑρμῆς Ἀ. as patron of traffic, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 297, compare “IPE” 12.128 (from Olbia), “IG” 12(8).67 (from Thasos), 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.15.1] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἄρτεμις Ἀ. at Olympia, [[ [prev. author] 5.15.4] Refs]; Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀ. at Sparta, [[ [prev. author] 3.11.9; generally, θεοὶ ἀ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 90. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 of things, τὰ ἀ. details of market-business, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II frequenting the market, ὁ ἀ. ὄχλος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.23; δήμου εἶδος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1291b19, etc.; τὸ ἀ. πλῆθος.. τὸ περὶ τὰς πράσεις καὶ τὰς ὠνὰς καὶ τὰς ἐμπορίας καὶ καπηλείας διατρῖβον [prev. work] 1291a4:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —ἀγοραῖοι (with or without ἄνθρωποι), οἱ, those who frequented the ἀγορά, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93, 2.141] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἔμποροι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 3.13] Refs 5th c.BC+], but = traders (i.e. sutlers), [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 2.2] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—hence, the common sort, low fellows, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1015, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 347c, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 6.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of agitators, [[ NT.Act.17.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 38] NT+1st c.AD+]: comparative, the baser sort, [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus Euerg. 1] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb -αίως, λέγειν[[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 10.11. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]