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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

  • τέλοσ δ’ ἔθηκε Ζεὺσ ἀγώνιοσ καλῶσ, εἰ δὴ καλῶσ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:12)
  • πάντα δ’ ἐξειπεῖν, ὅσ’ ἀγώνιοσ Ἑρμᾶσ Ἡροδότῳ ἔπορεν ἵπποισ, ἀφαιρεῖται βραχὺ μέτρον ἔχων ὕμνοσ. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 19:2)
  • πλευρὰν γὰρ λέγομεν τὴν ἀγώνιον γραμμήν, ἀγώνιοσ δ’ ἐστὶν ὅταν ἢ μὴ συννεύῃ πρὸσ ἄλληλα τὰ μέρη ἢ μὴ ἐπὶ πολύ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 4:5)

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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