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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

  • 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)
  • ἐπ[ει]δὴ δὲ ὁ κατήγοροσ οὐκ ἀπείρωσ ἔχων τοῦ λέγειν, εἰωθὼσ δὲ πολλάκισ ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἐκάλει συνηγόρουσ τοὺσ συναπολοῦντάσ τινα τῶν πολιτῶν ἀδίκωσ, δέομαι ὑμῶν καὶ ἐγὼ καὶ ἀντιβολῶ κελεῦσαι κἀμὲ καλέσαι τοὺσ συνεροῦντασ ἐμοὶ ὑπὲρ τηλικούτου ἀγῶνοσ, καὶ ἀκοῦσαι εὐνοικῶσ, εἴ τίσ μοι ἔχει τῶν οἰκείων ἢ τῶν φίλων βοηθῆσαι, πολίτῃ μὲν ὄντι ὑμετέρῳ, ἰδιώτῃ δὲ καὶ οὐκ εἰωθότι λέγειν, ἀγωνιζομένῳ δὲ καὶ κινδυνεύοντι οὐ μόνον περὶ θανάτου, ἐλάχιστον γὰρ τοῦτό ἐστιν τοῖσ ὀρθῶσ λογιζομένοισ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐξορισθῆναι καὶ ἀποθανόντα μηδὲ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι ταφῆναι. (Hyperides, Speeches, 26:2)
  • μηδὲ νομίσαι περὶ ἑνὸσ μόνου, δουλείασ ἀντ’ ἐλευθερίασ, ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀρχῆσ στερήσεωσ καὶ κινδύνου ὧν ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ ἀπήχθεσθε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 47 3:1)
  • τοσαύτῃ δ’ ἡ πόλισ ἐκέχρητο μεταβολῇ ὥστε πρότερον μὲν ὑπὲρ τῆσ τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίασ ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ τότε χρόνοισ ἀγαπᾶν, ἐὰν ὑπὲρ τῆσ αὑτῶν σωτηρίασ ἀσφαλῶσ δύνηται διακινδυνεῦσαι, καὶ πρότερον μὲν πολλῆσ χώρασ τῶν βαρβάρων ἐπάρχειν, τότε δὲ πρὸσ Μακεδόνασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἰδίασ κινδυνεύειν· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 58:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τῶν πρέσβεων ἀκούσαντεσ, Ἀριστείδου ψήφισμα γράψαντοσ, ἀπεκρίναντο θαυμαστὴν ἀπόκρισιν, τοῖσ μὲν πολεμίοισ συγγνώμην ἔχειν φάσκοντεσ, εἰ πάντα πλούτου καὶ χρημάτων ὤνια νομίζοιεν, ὧν κρεῖττον οὐδὲν ἴσασιν, ὀργίζεσθαι δὲ Λακεδαιμονίοισ, ὅτι τὴν πενίαν καὶ τὴν ἀπορίαν τὴν νῦν παροῦσαν Ἀθηναίοισ μόνον ὁρῶσι, τῆσ δ’ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τῆσ φιλοτιμίασ ἀμνημονοῦσιν ἐπὶ σιτίοισ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀγωνίζεσθαι παρακαλοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 4:1)
  • ἐν γὰρ τοῖσ θηρίοισ ἰσορροπεῖ πρὸσ ἀλκὴν ἡ φύσισ καὶ τὸ θῆλυ τοῦ ἄρρενοσ οὐδὲν ἀποδεῖ, πονεῖν τε τοὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ πόνουσ ἀγωνίζεσθαί τε τοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῶν τέκνων ἀγῶνασ. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 4 10:4)

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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