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ἀγώνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγώνιος

Structure: ἀγωνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gw/n

Sense

  1. of or belonging to the contest, its, president of games, decider of the contest, who presided over the great games
  2. full of conflict, uneasy

Examples

  • τὰ δὲ πρὸ τούτων δι’ αἰσχύνησ εἶχον ἅπαντεσ Ἕλληνεσ ὅλα γυμνὰ φαίνειν ἐν ταῖσ ἀγωνίαισ τὰ σώματα, ὡσ Ὅμηροσ τεκμηριοῖ, μαρτύρων ἀξιοπιστότατόσ τε καὶ ἀρχαιότατοσ ὢν ζωννυμένουσ τοὺσ ἡρ́ωασ ποιῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 4:2)
  • ὃσ τὸν μὲν φυλάττειν αὐτὸν δυνάμενον καὶ πολλὰ δείγματα τῆσ εὐνοίασ παρεσχημένον ἐλαύνοι καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐν φυγῇ χρόνον καὶ ταῖσ περὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἀγωνίαισ ἠνάγκασε ζῆσαι φίλων καὶ συγγενῶν ἔρημον· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 403:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to the contest

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

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