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ἀγώνισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγώνισμα

Structure: ἀγωνισματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)gwni/zomai

Sense

  1. a contest, deeds done in battle, brave deeds, feats
  2. a feat, a fine stroke, the issue
  3. to make, to strive for
  4. that with which one contends, a prize-essay, declamation

Declension

Third 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

  • ’ ‐‐ β́ τὸ μὲν Ἀρχιλόχου μέλοσ, ὃ τοῖσ νικῶσι τὰ Ὀλύμπια ἐπῄδετο, ἦν τρίστροφον, κοινῶσ δυνάμενον ἁρμόζειν ἐπὶ παντὸσ νικηφόρου διὰ τὸ κατὰ τῆσ πράξεωσ αὐτῆσ ψιλὸν ἔχειν τὸν λόγον, μήτε δὲ ὄνομα μήτε ἰδίωμα ἀγωνίσματοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 686)
  • οὕτω μὲν δὴ Ῥωμαῖοι βασιλεῦσιν ὑπὲρ τὰσ ἑξήκοντα ὀλυμπιάδασ χρησάμενοι, ἐπὶ δ’ ἐκείνοισ δημοκρατίᾳ τε καὶ ὑπάτοισ ἐτησίοισ προστάταισ ἐσ ἄλλασ ἑκατὸν ὀλυμπιάδασ, αὖθισ ἐπειρῶντο βασιλείασ, ὀλυμπιάδων οὐσῶν ἐν Ἕλλησιν ἑκατὸν ἐβδομήκοντα πέντε καὶ οὐδενὸσ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ τότε ἀγωνίσματοσ πλὴν σταδίου δρόμου γιγνομένου· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 5:5)
  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἡσίοδον ἀπελαθῆναι τοῦ ἀγωνίσματοσ ἅτε οὐ κιθαρίζειν ὁμοῦ τῇ ᾠδῇ δεδιδαγμένον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 6:2)
  • ἐπειδὴ οὖν εὐξάμεθά τε καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἄλλωσ ταῦτα ἔχοι, δεῖ δὴ ὥσπερ τῶν ἀθλητῶν τοὺσ ἀπογράψαντασ ἑαυτοὺσ μὴ ἀναχωρεῖν, ἀλλ’ ὁμόσε ἰέναι καὶ πειρᾶσθαι τοῦ ἀγωνίσματοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:6)

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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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