πᾰνήγῠρ-ις,
Doric dialect πανᾱγ-, εως, ἡ, (πᾶς, ἄγυρις) general or national assembly, ἐν πανηγύρει βουλευσόμεσθα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 845 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially a festal assembly in honour of a national god, Δήμητρος ἁγνῆς καὶ Κόρης [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 120; Ζηνὸς ἀμφὶ πανάγυριν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.96 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; πανηγύριας πανηγυρίζειν, ποιήσασθαι, to hold such festivals, keep holy-days, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.59, 58; συναγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.1; διαλύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.10; ἐς π. θεωρεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 342 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θεωρίαι ἐς τὰς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι π. Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.91; Ὀλυμπίαζε εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων π. ἐπανιών 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 363c; in Caria, “PCair.Zen.” 341 (a) 11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Egypt, [[ “PHib.” 27.76 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς π. καὶ δείξεσι τῶν σοφιστῶν [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.256S.; ἁμίλλαις ἱππικαῖς καὶ πανηγύρει προσκαθήμενος 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 1.39c; π. ἐμπορικόν τι πρᾶγμα 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.5.4, compare “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4474.35 (from Baetocaece), Prisc.p.277 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 any assembly, θεῶν ἅδε πανάγυρις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 220 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νεοσσῶν, φίλων, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 239, “HF” 1283. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, π. ὀφθαλμῶν feast for the eyes, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 3.1, compare 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.145 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸν.. Ἔχετον χρυσὸν ἀποδείξων καὶ π. destined to exhibit [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] as gold and a feast (by comparison with himself), [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.236D. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]