FORUM, the place of general assembly in a Roman city, as the Agora was in a Greek.
Although a considerable part of the agora has been excavated, none of the statues which Pausanias saw in it have been discovered.
It required little sagacity to identify it with the street mentioned by Pausanias as leading from the agora towards Lechaeum.
This theatre was, according to Pausanias, on the street leading from the agora towards Sicyon, and so to the west of the agora.
On the street going eastward from the agora nothing is mentioned between it and the city wall.
It was practically certain that by following up this pavement to its point of intersection with the road from Sicyon the agora would be discovered.
On the higher level of the agoraand the Apollo temple, where the depth of earth is comparatively slight, there is little hope of important finds.
The word by which Plutarch has translated Forum isAgora ([Greek: agora]).
As the crowd from the Agora also poured forth, Antonius was finally left on the tribunal sitting alone.
Among the first of these benefactions was the great gymnasium of Ptolemy, built in the neighbourhood of the Agora about 250 B.
The excavations revealed a main road of surprisingly narrow dimensions winding up from the Agora to the Acropolis.
The north slope of the Areopagus, where a number of early tombs were found, was also explored, and the limits of the Agora on the south and north-west were approximately ascertained.
It has been known as the Theseum since the middle ages, apparently because some of its sculptures represent the exploits of Theseus, but the Theseum was an earlier sanctuary on the east of the Agora (see above).
The centre of commercial and civic life of the older group of communities, as of the greater city of the classical age, was the Agora or market.
Among the monuments of their rule, in addition to the enlarged Agora and the Enneacrunus, were the Academy and perhaps the Lyceum.
The New, or Roman, Agora to the north of the Acropolis, perhaps mainly an oil market, was constructed after the year 27 B.
A portion of the main road leading from the Dipylon to the Agora was discovered.
In the time of the Peisistratids the Agora was enlarged so as to extend over the Inner Ceramicus on the north-west, apparently reaching the northern declivities of the Areopagus and the Acropolis on the south.
The representation of plays was perhaps transferred to this spot from the early Orchestra in the Agora at the beginning of the 5th century B.
The port itself was ornamented with beautiful public buildings, of which the Agora was the most considerable.
In those primitive times a State was often nothing but a city, with the lands surrounding it, and therefore it was possible for all the inhabitants to assemble in the agora with the king and nobles.
Y la vuestra, ya yo os dixe que la queria para cosas mayores, y que asi agora yo no os embiaba a las de la guerra sino a esa ciudad a dar desde ella la orden en todo que combiniese: Pues y por otras ocupaciones y cartas no lo podia hazer.
Melas recognized them all, for they were known to every one and he had seen them at the house of Pericles or walking about the Agora on previous journeys.
Actaeon could imagine himself still in the Agora of Athens.
Actaeon compared this square with the bright Agora of Athens, and even with the Forum of Saguntum in its days of peace.
In the Agora and in the Cerameicus they talked of nothing but Simalion's new love.
A standing agora is a symptom of manifest terror (II.
One of the books of Epicurus was publicly burnt in the agora by order of Alexander, and the ashes cast into the sea.
It is also a dirge over the decay of Greece, when crops were being reaped in the agora of historic cities, and the tall grasses grew around the statues of gods and heroes of the olden time.
There, in theAgora below, rival teachers, with dripping brow and distended veins, are shouting one another down before an admiring crowd.
M91) “Proclamation shall be made against the murderer in the agora within [?
The adoption shall take place in the agora when all the citizens have assembled, from the stone from which speeches are made.
In the best days of Greece the agora was the place where nearly all public traffic was conducted.
He was now free to go where he would, to frequent the agora and the street, to attend the theatre, in which he had his appointed place, and to make himself directly acquainted with all the details of public life.
The schools were for boys what the agora and the gymnasium were for grown men--the place where their lives were spent.
She went as far as the Agoraalong the road which led to the sea, at the end of which the masts of eight hundred ships stood huddled together like gigantic stalks of corn.
Traces remain of paved roads both within the agora and leading out of it; but the whole site is now a deserted and feverish swamp.
The agora is of unsymmetrical form; its sides are bordered by porticoes, interrupted by streets, like the primitive agora of Elis as described by Pausanias, and unlike the regular agoras of Ionic type.
The plan of the agora and adjacent buildings has been recovered, and the walls have been completely investigated.
On the opposite side of the agora was an extensive Bouleuterion or senate-house.
The Spartan populace was constantly innovating, not openly, as in the noisy Agora of Athens, but silently and ceaselessly, through their delegated ephors.
Their statues stood in the Agora or Public Market-Square.
