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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

  • ἀγωνιῶ γάρ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:2)
  • ἀγωνιῶ δὲ καὶ δέδοικα παντελῶσ, μὴ ποτ’ ἐπιβὰσ κήρυκι τὸν πόδ’ ἀναπαρῶ αὐλεῖν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσιν αὐλητοῦ κακοῦ μέλλοντοσ ὁ Στρατόνικοσ ’ εὐφήμει, μέχρι σπείσαντεσ εὐξώμεσθα φησί, ’ τοῖσ θεοῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 41 6:2)
  • "πλεονάζων ἐν ταῖσ προσφωνήσεσι πρὸσ σὲ περὶ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν κλήσεων ἀγωνιῶ μή ποτε εἰσ πληθώραν ἐμπεσὼν μεμψιμοιρήσῃσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 453)
  • "ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ παραχρῆμα κατέδεισα, καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἀκούσασ σήμερον ὡσ εἰσ τὴν σὴν οἰκίαν οἱ φυγάδεσ καταίρειν μέλλουσιν, ἀγωνιῶ, μὴ μεγάλων κακῶν ἐμπλήσωμεν ἡμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ, οὐδὲν ἀξιόλογον τοὺσ πολεμίουσ δράσαντεσ ἀλλ’ ὅσον διαταράξαντεσ. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 17 7:16)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄνα ἐξ ἑδράνων, ὅπου μακραίωνι στηρίζει ποτὲ τᾷδ’ ἀγωνίῳ σχολᾷ ἄταν οὐρανίαν φλέγων. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, epode1)

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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