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agora
/ˈæ.ɡə.ɹə/
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What does agora mean?
noun
- A place for gathering.
- A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
- Since 1960, a monetary unit and coin of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel / sheqel.
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Well, and about the business of the agora, and the ordinary dealings between man and man, or again about agreements with artisans; about insult and injury, or the commencement of actions, and the appointment of juries, what would you say?
Man turned towards man; and parenthood, the divine gift of imparting human life, was severed from the loftiest and profoundest phases of human emotion: Xanthippe fretted out her ignorant and miserable little life between the walls of her house, and Socrates lay in the Agora, discussing philosophy and morals with Alcibiades; and the race decayed at its core.