Lexical entry listing Agra/Agrai and numerous place-names (capes, cities, islands) across regions (Attica, Thrace, Sicily, Italy, Libya, Macedonia, Boeotia, Cyprus, etc.), with cultic, mythic, and geographic notes.
Ἄγρα καὶ Ἄγραι χωρίον, ἑνικῶς καὶ πληθυντικῶς. ἔστι δὲ τῆς Ἀττικῆς πρὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἐν ᾧ τὰ μικρὰ μυστήρια ἐπιτελεῖται, μίμημα τῶν περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον, ἐν ᾧ λέγουσι καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα μεμυῆσθαι. ἄκρα· ἔστι καὶ Ἄκρα Ἰαπυγίας πόλις κατά τινας Ὑδροῦς λεγομένη. βʹ ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἐν αὑτῇ ἔχουσα λιμένα Βρεντέσιον. ἔστι δὲ Ἰταλίας. γʹ Σικελίας. ἔστι Συρακοσίων κτίσμα. δʹ Εὐβοίας. ϛʹ Σκυθίας. ζʹ Κύπρου. ηʹ Ἀκαρνανίας. ἔστι καὶ πέραν Τίγρητος Ἄκρα. Ἀρριανὸς ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ. Φλέγρα πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἣν Εὔδοξος μετὰ ταῦτα Παλλήνην φησὶ κληθῆναι. Σέρρα ἀκρωτήριον Θρᾴκης, ὃ καὶ Σέρρειον λέγεται, Κάρραι πόλις Μεσοποταμίας ἀπὸ Καρρᾶ ποταμοῦ Συρίας. ἔστι καὶ πόλις πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Σίρρα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος ἐν Φιλιππικῶν εἰκοστῷ. Σκύδρα Μακεδονικὴ πόλις. Τάρρα Λυδίας πόλις. ἑτέρα Κρήτης, ἐν ᾗ Ταρραῖος Ἀπόλλων τιμᾶται. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Τάρρα παρὰ τὸν Καύκασον, Κρητῶν ἄποικος. Ἀχέρραι πόλις μεταξὺ τοῦ Πάδου καὶ τῶν Ἄλπεων. Ἀντίφρα πολίχνιον Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐγγύς. Γαλάδραι πόλις Μακεδονίας ἐν Πιερίᾳ. Λυκόφρων (v. 1444) »σῆναι Γαλάδρας τὸν στρατήλατον λύκον« ἀπὸ Γαλάδρου τοῦ Ἠμαθίου παιδός. οἱ δὲ ὅτι ὁ Γαλάδρας ἔκτισε τὴν πόλιν. Γεράνθραι πόλις Λακωνικῆς. Παυσανίας τρίτῳ (c. 2, 6). Ἐχέτρα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Κελαίθρα πόλις Βοιωτίας. Φαλάκραι ἄκρα τῆς Ἴδης, ἥτις οὐκ ἔχει ζῶν φυτὸν διὰ τὴν χιόνα καὶ τὸν κρύσταλλον, ἀλλ´ ἐψίλωται. καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐψιλωμένα ὄρη ἐλέγετο Φαλάκραι. Ἱππουάκρα πόλις Λιβύης. Σωσάνδρα νῆσος περὶ Κρήτην. ἐκλήθη δέ, ἐπειδή ποτε καὶ Λυττίων νύκτωρ ἐπελθόντων τῇ πόλει διασῶσαι λέγεται τοὺς εἰς αὐτὴν φυγόντας. Χαλάστρα πόλις Θρᾴκης περὶ τὸν Θερμαῖον κόλπον. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ »ἐν δ´ αὐτῷ Θέρμη πόλις Ἑλλήνων, ἐν δὲ Χαλάστρη πόλις Θρηΐκων«. ὠνόμασται δὲ ἀπὸ Χαλάστρης. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη τῇ πόλει ὁμώνυμος. Στράβων δ´ ἐν ἑβδόμῃ Μακεδονίας αὐτὴν καλεῖ. σεσημείωται τὸ Τάναγρα πόλις Βοιωτίας, ἣν Ὅμηρος Γραῖαν καλεῖ διὰ τὸ πλησίον εἶναι (Β 498) καὶ σκολόπενδρα προπαροξυνόμενα καὶ συστέλλοντα τὸ 'α'. τὸ δὲ Ἐρυθρά ἡ θάλασσά ἐστιν ἐπιθετικόν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄκρα Ἐρυθρά τῆς Λιβύης. ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἑβδόμῃ γεωγραφουμένων. καὶ Ἐρυθραί πόλις Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Λιβύης ἄλλη καὶ ἄλλη Λοκρίδος. ἔστι καὶ Βοιωτίας καὶ Κύπρου ἄλλη ἡ νῦν Πάφος. τὸ δὲ Φαίδρα κύριον συνεξωμοιώθη τῷ Φαῖδρος ἀρσενικῷ· ὡσαύτως καὶ
Agra and Agrai, a place-name, in the singular and in the plural. It is in Attica, before the city, in which the Lesser Mysteries are celebrated, an imitation of those connected with Dionysus, in which they also say that Heracles was initiated. Akra: there is also an Akra, a city of Iapygia, according to some called Hydrous. Second: there is also another, having within it a harbor, Brentesion; it is in Italy. Third: of Sicily; it is a foundation of the Syracusans. Fourth: of Euboea. Sixth: of Scythia. Seventh: of Cyprus. Eighth: of Acarnania. There is also an Akra beyond the Tigris. Arrian, in the sixteenth. Phlegra, a city of Thrace, which Eudoxus says was afterwards called Pallene. Serra, a promontory of Thrace, which is also called Serreion; Karrai, a city of Mesopotamia, from the Karra river of Syria; there is also a city by the Red Sea. Sirra, a city of Thrace. Theopompus, in the twentieth of the Philippica. Skydra, a Macedonian city. Tarra, a city of Lydia; another of Crete, in which Tarraean Apollo is honored. There is also another city, Tarra, by the Caucasus, a colony of Cretans. Acherrhai, a city between the Po and the Alps. Antiphra, a small town near Alexandria. Galadrai, a city of Macedonia in Pieria. Lycophron (v. 1444): “to make the general wolf of your Galadrai,” from Galadros, the son of the Emathian; but others say that Galadras founded the city. Geranthrai, a city of Laconia. Pausanias, in the third (c. 2, 6). Echetra, a city of Italy. Kelaithra, a city of Boeotia. Phalakrai, a peak of Ida, which has no living plant because of the snow and the ice, but is stripped bare; and all mountains stripped bare were called Phalakrai. Hippouakra, a city of Libya. Sosandra, an island around Crete. It was so called because once, when the Lyttians made a night attack on the city, it is said to have saved those who had fled to it. Chalastra, a city of Thrace around the Thermaic Gulf. Hecataeus, in Europe: “and in it Therme, a city of Greeks, and in it Chalastra, a city of Thracians.” It is named from Chalastra; there is also a lake of the same name as the city. Strabo, in the seventh book of Macedonia, calls it so. Note has been made of Tanagra, a city of Boeotia, which Homer calls Graia because it is nearby (Β 498), and of proparoxytone scolo-pendra-forms that contract the α. But Ἐρυθρά, “the Red,” the sea, is an epithet. There is also a promontory Ἐρυθρά of Libya, as Artemidorus in the seventh of the Geographoumena. And Ἐρυθραί, a city of the Ionians; Hecataeus, in Asia. There is also another of Libya and another of Locris. There is also one of Boeotia and another of Cyprus, now Paphos. But the proper name Φαίδρα has been assimilated to the masculine Φαῖδρος; likewise also…