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

  • μεταξὺ γὰρ αὐλῶν, φασίν, ὅτε τὸ πρῶτον ἠγωνίζετο, φιλοτιμότερον ἐμφυσῶν ἐναπέπνευσε τῷ αὐλῷ καὶ ἀστεφάνωτοσ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ ἀπέθανε τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ πρῶτον καὶ ὕστατον αὐλήσασ ἐν τοῖσ Διονυσίοισ. (Lucian, Harmonides 6:1)
  • εἰ μὴ κατένειψε χιόνι τὴν Θρᾴκην ὅλην καὶ τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ ἔπηξ’, ὑπ’ αὐτὸν τὸν χρόνον, ὅτ’ ἐνθαδὶ Θέογνισ ἠγωνίζετο. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 5:5)
  • μῶν ἐν οἷσ Οἰνεὺσ ὁδὶ ὁ δύσποτμοσ γεραιὸσ ἠγωνίζετο; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:16)
  • ὁ γὰρ γέρων ὡσ ἔπιε διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου ἤκουσέ τ’ αὐλοῦ, περιχαρὴσ τῷ πράγματι ὀρχούμενοσ τῆσ νυκτὸσ οὐδὲν παύεται τἀρχαἶ ἐκεῖν’ οἷσ Θέσπισ ἠγωνίζετο· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode2)
  • ἠγωνίζετο δὲ Βροῦτοσ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ ἀρετῇ πρὸσ πολλὰ τοῦ Κασσίου καὶ λαμπρὰ τὰ Παρθικὰ νεανιεύματα. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 7 2:2)

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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