[Meaning at] the third hour.[1]
"They were fighting with missiles about [the time of] full
agora."[2]
[This] is also said: "taking a stand in the middle, at full
agora, he said [...]."[3]
*plh/qousa a)gora/: w(/ra tri/th. h)kroboli/zonto peri\ plh/qousan a)gora/n. le/getai kai/: plhquou/shs a)gora=s e)n me/sw| sta\s ei)=pe.
For this expression, see also
pi 1255.
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Xenophon (
Eranos 13 p.176 n.29), who uses this phrase several times, e.g.
Anabasis 1.8.1, 2.1.7,
Memorabilia 1.1.10.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. For the verb, see
eta 183 (and
alpha 996).
[3] Part of
Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F22 (also in the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti De virtutibus). The subject is the Lydian king 'Kamblitas' (Kambles), so gluttonous that he butchered and ate his own wife; here he is about to express remorse and kill himself; cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 10.415C-D (10.8 Kaibel).
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