2. Noun. (plural of megaron) ¹
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Definition of Megara
1. megaron [n] - See also: megaron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megara
Literary usage of Megara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"But megara and the hills alike take their name from that town of Hybla, the
Greater Hybla, which stood hard by, and which in later times in some sort ..."
2. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1843)
"megara had hitherto been faithful to the Lacedaemonian alliance — a dispute
relative to the settlement of frontiers broke out between that state and Corinth ..."
3. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1852)
"megara had hitherto been faithful to the Lacedaemonian alliance—a dispute relative
to the settlement of frontiers broke out between that state and Corinth. ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"off1 the long walls from the city of megara, and taken in ... and lest megara
should be won, sent unto the Boeotians, willing them to meet him speedily with ..."
5. A History of Greece by Evelyn Abbott (1901)
"In the seventh century megara played an important part in the development of
Hellenic commerce. Her colonies were established in the distant west and in the ..."
6. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"As Pausanias, immediately after describing the old gymnasium, quits megara and
descends to the port, it is natural to suppose that the Gate of the Nymphs ..."
7. Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1852)
"megara had even before revolted against the Athenians. 6 After the Megarians had
themselves invoked the assistance of the Athenians, and after the latter ..."
8. A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Present by Telemachus Thomas Timayenis (1883)
"megara. megara, which occupied the broadest and most mountainous part of the
isthmus that joins the Peloponnesus with the mainland of Greece, was also among ..."
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