[Meaning] they were speaking in debate.
*)hgoro/wnto: e)dhmhgo/roun.
This entry is from the
Lexicon Ambrosianum (Ambrosianus B 12 sup. 45 and Laurentianus 59.16 fol. 187r) and its origin is in a scholion to
Homer,
Iliad 4.1 (describing a meeting of the gods).
The headword verb is an epic form of the imperfect of
a)gora/omai which occurs not only in
Homer but also in several post-classical epic poets (Apollonius of
Rhodes, Quintus,
Nonnus) who take
Homer as their model. This same form is to be found also in
Herodotus.
The
precise meaning of the verb in the Homeric passage carries a dual sense: to meet in assembly, and to speak there. On this see e.g.
Porphyrius,
Questionum Homericarum ad Iliadem pertinentium reliquiae 4.1: '
Aristarchus considered
h)goro/wnto as meaning
they gathered together, but is better to say
they discussed… If indeed [
Homer] meant
they gathered together, would have written
oi( de\ qeoi\ pa\r *zhni\ kaqh/menoi h)gere/qento;
and the gods, seated near Zeus, h)gere/qento [gathered together]' (as in
Iliad 11.770, 24.790 and elsewhere).
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