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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

  • Ἐλεάζαρ δὲ προηγωνίζετο, ἡ δὲ μήτηρ τῶν ἑπτὰ παίδων ἐνήθλει, οἱ δὲ ἀδελφοὶ ἠγωνίζοντο. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 17:13)
  • αὕτη, ὦ Πάμφιλε, ἡ Ἑλένη ὑπὲρ ἧσ ἐμονομάχουν πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, καὶ ἄχρι γε τούτου γελοῖον οὐδὲν πλὴν ^ ἐκεῖνο ἴσωσ, ^ τὸ φιλοσόφουσ εἶναι φάσκοντασ καὶ χρημάτων καταφρονεῖν ἔπειτα ὑπὲρ τούτων ὡσ ὑπὲρ πατρίδοσ κινδυνευούσησ καὶ ἱερῶν πατρῴων καὶ τάφων προγονικῶν ἀγωνίζεσθαι. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 3:6)
  • πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἄλλοι τὸν ἐπιτάφιον τοῦ ἀποθανόντοσ ἐκείνου ἠγωνίζοντο· (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 4:2)
  • 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)
  • ἀπροσδόκητον, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, τὸν ἀγῶνα τοῦτον ἀγωνίζομαι παρ’ ὑμῖν πάντα γοῦν μᾶλλον ἂν ἤλπισα ἢ τὸν Διάλογον τοιαῦτα ἐρεῖν περὶ ἐμοῦ, ὃν παραλαβὼν ἐγὼ σκυθρωπὸν ἔτι τοῖσ πολλοῖσ δοκοῦντα καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν συνεχῶν ἐρωτήσεων κατεσκληκότα, καὶ ταύτῃ αἰδέσιμον μὲν εἶναι δοκοῦντα, οὐ πάντῃ δὲ ἡδὺν οὐδὲ τοῖσ πλήθεσι κεχαρισμένον, πρῶτον μὲν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ γῆσ βαίνειν εἴθισα εἰσ τὸν ἀνθρώπινον τοῦτον τρόπον, μετὰ δὲ τὸν αὐχμὸν τὸν πολὺν ἀποπλύνασ καὶ μειδιᾶν καταναγκάσασ ἡδίω τοῖσ ὁρῶσι παρεσκεύασα, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὴν κωμῳδίαν αὐτῷ παρέζευξα, καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο πολλὴν οἱ μηχανώμενοσ τὴν εὔνοιαν παρὰ τῶν ἀκουόντων, οἳ τέωσ τὰσ ἀκάνθασ τὰσ ἐν αὐτῷ δεδιότεσ ὥσπερ τὸν ἐχῖνον εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ λαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐφυλάττοντο. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 34:2)
  • "ὦ ἄνερ, ἀγωνίζομαι, τῆσ σῆσ εὐνοίασ πρὸσ ἐμὲ καὶ δόξησ καὶ δυνάμεωσ, ἣν διὰ σὲ καρποῦμαι πολλαῖσ ἐπίφθονοσ οὖσα κακαῖσ γυναιξὶν ὧν φάρμακα δεδοικυῖα καὶ μηχανὰσ ἐπείσθην ἀντιμηχανήσασθαι, μωρὰ μὲν ἴσωσ καὶ γυναικεῖα, θανάτου δ’ οὐκ ἄξια· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 4:1)
  • "ὦ ἄνερ ἀγωνίζομαι, τῆσ σῆσ εὐνοίασ πρὸσ ἐμὲ καὶ δόξησ καὶ δυνάμεωσ, ἣν διὰ σὲ καρποῦμαι πολλαῖσ ἐπίφθονοσ οὖσα κακαῖσ γυναιξὶν ὧν φάρμακα δεδοικυῖα καὶ μηχανὰσ; (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 12:1)
  • δέομαι οὖν ὑμῶν ἁπάντων, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἱκετεύω μετ’ εὐνοίασ ἀκοῦσαί μου, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι τῷ πατρὶ βοηθῶν καὶ πειθόμενοσ ἀγωνίζομαι, ἔπειθ’ ὅτι καὶ νέοσ ὢν καὶ ἄπειροσ, ὥστ’ ἀγαπητὸν εἶναί μοι, ἐὰν ὑπαρξάσησ τῆσ παρ’ ὑμῶν εὐνοίασ δυνηθῶ δηλῶσαι τὰ πεπραγμένα τούτῳ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 4:1)
  • λόγῳ μὲν οὖν περὶ τῆσ ἀπογραφῆσ ἀγωνίζομαι, ἔργῳ δὲ περὶ πολιτείασ. (Lysias, Speeches, 27:1)

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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