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ἄγροικος , ον, (ἀγρός, οἰκέω)
A.dwelling in the fields, ζὧα, opp. ὄρεια, Arist.HA488b2; esp. of men, countryman, rustic, Ar.Nu.47; in Attica, οἱ ἄ., = γεωμόροι (q. v.), Arist.Ath.13.2, D.H.2.8: mostly with the collat. sense of boorish, rude, Ar.Nu.628,646, etc., cf. Thphr. Char.4; “μέλος -ότερον” Ar.Ach.674; “ἄ. σοφία” Pl.Phdr.229e, cf. Isoc.5.82（Comp.), Arist.EN1128a9; of fortune, Apollod.Car.5.14; ἄ. Δημοσθένης, of Dinarchus, D.H.Din.8. Adv. “-κως” Ar.V.1320: Comp. “-οτέρως” Pl.R.361e, X.Mem.3.13.1; “-ότερον” Pl.Phdr.260d.
II. rustic, “βίος” Ar.Nu.43.
2. of fruits, common, opp. “γενναῖος, ὀπώρα” Pl.Lg.844d. (ἀγροῖκος dwelling in the country, ἄγροικος boorish, acc. to Ammon.Diff.5, but this is very doubtful.)—Not found in early Ep. or Trag.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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