ἄγριος, α, ον,
[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.119] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ος, ον (not in Trag. or com). [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.88, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 3.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 824a, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.36] Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερος[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.60] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 564a] Refs 5th c.BC+] (ἀγρός): living in the fields, wild, savage.
__I of animals, opposed to τιθασός ἥμερος, wild, βάλλειν ἄγρια πάντα[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.52; αἶξ, σῦς, 3.24, 9.539] Refs 8th c.BC+]; even of flies, ἄ. φῦλα, μυίας[[ 19.30] Refs]; ἵπποι, ὄνοι, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.86, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. τέρας, of a bull, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1214; ἄ. θηρία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, living in a wild state, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.191. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of trees, opposed to ἥμερος, wild, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 46, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.21, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μητρὸς ἀγρίας ἄπο ποτόν of the wild vine, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 614, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 896a8; ἄ. ἔλαιον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1197; ὕλη [prev. author] “OT” 476, etc.; μέλι NT.Matt.3.4. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__I.3 of countries, wild, uncultivated, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b, “Lg.” 905b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]