Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἀγωνιζομένη περὶ πρωτείων καὶ τιμῆσ καὶ δόξησ κινδυνεύουσα πάντα τὸν αἰῶνα διετέλεσε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 31 3:1)
  • καὶ αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐχορήγησε κυκλίῳ χορῷ τῇ αὑτοῦ φυλῇ ἀγωνιζομένῃ διθυράμβῳ, καὶ νικήσασ ἀνέθηκε τρίποδα ἐφ’ ὑψηλοῦ ἀντικρὺ τοῦ πωρίνου Σειληνοῦ. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 14:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἦν ταῦθ’, ὡσ ἐοίκε, τοῖσ Ἀθηναίοισ πάτρια οὐδ’ ἀνεκτὰ οὐδ’ ἔμφυτα, οὐδ’ ἐδυνήθη πώποτε τὴν πόλιν οὐδεὶσ ἐκ παντὸσ τοῦ χρόνου πεῖσαι τοῖσ ἰσχύουσι μέν, μὴ δίκαια δὲ πράττουσι προσθεμένην ἀσφαλῶσ δουλεύειν, ἀλλ’ ἀγωνιζομένη περὶ πρωτείων καὶ τιμῆσ καὶ δόξησ κινδυνεύουσα πάντα τὸν αἰῶνα διατετέλεκε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 296:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ὕπατοσ ἐνθυμούμενοσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἀξιόμαχοσ ἔσται ἡ σὺν αὐτῷ δύναμισ ἀγωνιζομένη πρὸσ ἀμφότερα τὰ ἔθνη, πέμπει τινὰσ ἐκ τῶν ἱππέων γράμματα εἰσ τὴν Ῥώμην κομίζοντασ, δι’ ὧν ἠξίου ταχεῖαν αὐτοῖσ ἐλθεῖν ἐπικουρίαν, ὡσ κινδυνευούσησ ὅλησ διαφθαρῆναι τῆσ σὺν αὐτῷ στρατιᾶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 63 1:1)

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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