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

  • εἰ ὃ ἂν χαίρειν ἡμᾶσ ποιῇ, μήτι πάσασ τὰσ ἡδονάσ, ἀλλ’ ὃ ἂν διὰ τῆσ ἀκοῆσ καὶ τῆσ ὄψεωσ, τοῦτο φαῖμεν εἶναι καλόν, πῶσ τι ἄρ’ ἂν ἀγωνιζοίμεθα; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 101:5)
  • ἐνενόησάσ που λέγοντοσ ἄρτι τοῦ Πρωταγόρου καὶ ὀνειδίζοντοσ ἡμῖν ὅτι πρὸσ παιδίον τοὺσ λόγουσ ποιούμενοι τῷ τοῦ παιδὸσ φόβῳ ἀγωνιζοίμεθα εἰσ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ χαριεντισμόν τινα ἀποκαλῶν, ἀποσεμνύνων δὲ τὸ πάντων μέτρον, σπουδάσαι ἡμᾶσ διεκελεύσατο περὶ τὸν αὑτοῦ λόγον; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 161:7)
  • εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ μανέντεσ σε κατακτείναιμεν, ἄλλο τι ἂν ἢ τὸν εὐεργέτην κατακτείναντεσ πρὸσ βασιλέα τὸν μέγιστον ἔφεδρον ἀγωνιζοίμεθα; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 11:1)
  • τί οὖν, ἔφη ὁ Κῦροσ, οὐ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἔλεξάσ μοι, εἰ οἶσθα, πόση τισ ἡ προσιοῦσα, καὶ πάλιν τὴν ἡμετέραν, ὅπωσ εἰδότεσ ἀμφοτέρασ πρὸσ ταῦτα βουλευώμεθα ὅπωσ ἂν ἄριστα ἀγωνιζοίμεθα; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 5:5)

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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