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ἀγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγός

Structure: ἀγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gw

Sense

  1. a leader, chief

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ‐ τίσ εἶσ’ ἐπὶ Πανθοί̈δαν, ἢ τὸν Εὐρώπασ, Λυκίων ἀγὸν ἀνδρῶν; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 14)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ πρὸσ σὲ πότερον ὡσ ἔτην λέγω, ἢ ῥήτορ’ ἱεροράβδον, ἢ πόλεωσ ἀγόν; (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 3:8)
  • ἆγον, πατὴρ δ’ εὔβουλοσ ἡρ́ωσ πάντα σάμαινεν Πριάμῳ βασιλεῖ παίδεσσί τε μῦθον Ἀχαιῶν. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 15 4:1)
  • βουληθεὶσ γὰρ ὁ θεὸσ ἀγαθὰ μὲν πάντα, φαῦλον δὲ μηδὲν εἶναι κατὰ δύναμιν, οὕτω δὴ πᾶν ὅσον ἦν ὁρατὸν παραλαβών, οὐχ ἡσυχίαν ἄγον ἀλλὰ κινούμενον πλημμελῶσ καὶ ἀτάκτωσ, εἰσ τάξιν αὐτὸ ἦγεν ἐκ τῆσ ἀταξίασ, ἡγησάμενοσ ἐκεῖνο τοῦδε πάντωσ ἄμεινον. (Plutarch, De fato, section 9 8:5)
  • σηπίασ τ’ ἆγον νεούσασ πέρδικάσ τε πετομένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 2:6)
  • κάλοι δέ σ’ ἆγον ὠκέεσ στροῦθοι, περὶ γᾶσ μελαίνασ πύκνα διννῆντεσ πτέρ’ ἀπ’ ὠράνᾤθεροσ διὰ μέσσω. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2321)

Synonyms

  1. a leader

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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