ἄγροικος, ον,
(ἀγρός, οἰκέω) dwelling in the fields, ζὧα, opposed to ὄρεια, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 488b2] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of men, countryman, rustic, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 47] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Attica, οἱ ἄ., ={γεωμόροι} (which see), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 13.2, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.8] Refs 4th c.BC+]: mostly with the collateral sense of boorish, rude, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 628, 646, etc., compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4; μέλος -ότερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 674; ἄ. σοφία 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229e, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.82 (_comparative_), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1128a9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fortune, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Carystius Comicus 5.14] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἄ. Δημοσθένης, of Dinarchus, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 8] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb -κως[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1320] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -οτέρως[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 361e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.1;] Refs 5th c.BC+] -ότερον [[5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II rustic, βίος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 43. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of fruits, common, opposed to γενναῖος, ὀπώρα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 844d. (ἀγροῖκος] Refs 5th c.BC+] dwelling in the country, ἄγροικος boorish, accusative to [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” 5, but this is very doubtful.)] Refs 1st c.AD+] —Not found in early _Epic dialect_ or Trag.