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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

  • οἴμοι μηδαμῶσ ἡμῖν παρὰ τὴν θάλατταν, ἵν’ ἀνακύψεται κλητῆρ’ ἄγουσ’ ἑώθεν ἡ Σαλαμινία. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 4:20)
  • καταγνωσθέντοσ δὲ τοῦ ἅγουσ, αὐτοὶ μὲν ἐκ τῶν τάφων ἐξεβλήθησαν, τὸ δὲ γένοσ αὐτῶν ἔφυγεν ἀειφυγίαν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., text 1:5)
  • ἥδε γὰρ δαμάζεται ἑφθοῖσ προσώποισ ἰχθύων χειρουμένη, ἄγουσ1’ ὑπ’ αὐτὰ σώματ’ ἀρίστου πύλασ, ἀσύμβολον κλίνειν τ’ ἀναγκάζει φύσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 11 2:1)
  • οὗ δὲ νῦν σ1’ ἄγω, πορνεῖόν ἐστιν, πολυτελῶσ Ἀδώνια ἄγουσ1’ ἑταίρα μεθ’ ἑτέρων πορνῶν χύδην σαυτὸν ἀποσάξεισ τόν τε κόλπον ἀποτρέχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 39 4:5)
  • "καὶ τελευταῖον αἳ τε πλάναι καὶ ἡ λατρεία τοῦ παιδὸσ οἵ τε γιγνόμενοι περὶ τὰ Τέμπη καθαρμοὶ μεγάλου τινὸσ ἄγουσ καὶ τολμήματοσ ὑποψίαν ἔχουσι. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 15 4:5)

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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