Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἀγωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγωνίζομαι

Structure: ἀγωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend for a prize
  2. to fight
  3. to contend for the prize on the stage, to contend for victory
  4. to contend against, to fight, to fight against
  5. to struggle, to exert oneself
  6. to be won by a contest, to be brought to issue, the contested points, under debate, shall be brought to issue

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ἀγωνίζεται γὰρ οὐχὶ μὴ παθεῖν αὐτὸσ ἀλλὰ παθεῖν κακῶσ ἐπιτρίψασ ἕτερον· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 15 2:1)
  • ἀγωνίζεται γάρ, οὐχὶ μὴ παθεῖν αὐτόσ, ἀλλὰ παθεῖν κακῶσ ἐπιτρίψασ ἕτερον ἐπιθυμίασ δ’ αὐτῷ τὸ ἀτερπέστατον ἐμπέφυκεν, εἴ γε δὴ τοῦ λυπεῖν ἕτερον ὄρεξίσ ἐστι. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 15 1:2)
  • "ἀγωνίζεται γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀθλητὴσ κατὰ τὸν βίον· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 184)
  • ἀγωνίζεται δὲ καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ Πελίᾳἀγῶνα, πρὸσ Ἀταλάντην διαπαλαίσασ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 13 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὗτοσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, πρὸσ μὲν τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὰσ μαρτυρίασ, ἃσ ἡμεῖσ παρεχόμεθα, δίκαιον οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἔχει λέγειν, ἀγανακτεῖ δὲ καὶ δεινά φησι πάσχειν, ὅτι τοῦ πατρὸσ τετελευτηκότοσ ἀγωνίζεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 89:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend for a prize

  2. to fight

  3. to contend against

  4. to struggle

Related

Derived

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

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