ἀθρόος a_copul. θρόος in crowds or masses, crowded together, mostly in pl.; πάντες ἁθρόοι Od., etc.; ἀθρόοι, of soldiers, in close order, Lat. conferto agmine, Hdt., Xen., etc.; also, πολλαὶ κῶμαι ἀθρόαι close together, Xen. taken together, ἁθρόα πάντʼ ἀπέτισεν he paid for all at once, Od.; ἁθρόα πόλις the citizens as a whole, Thuc.; τὸ ἀθρόον their assembled force, Xen.; ἀθρόωι στόματι with one voice, Eur.; ἁθρόους κρίνειν to condemn all by a single vote, Plat.; κατήριπεν ἀθρόος he fell all at once, Theocr. multitudinous, δάκρυ Eur., Plat. comp. ἁθροώτερος Thuc., etc.; later ἀθρούστερος Plut.