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

  • "πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ οἶκοι κατεσκευάζοντο κυκλοτερεῖσ, ἵνα πάντεσ εἰσ τὸ μέσον τοῦ κοττάβου τεθέντοσ ἐξ ἀποστήματοσ ἴσου καὶ τόπων ὁμοίων ἀγωνίζοιντο περὶ τῆσ νίκησ, οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο βάλλειν ἐπὶ τὸν σκοπόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ καλῶσ ἕκαστα ἀνύτειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 58 1:3)
  • τὰ μέν γε σώματα τῶν παρθένων δρόμοισ καὶ πάλαισ καὶ βολαῖσ δίσκων καὶ ἀκοντίων διεπόνησεν, ὡσ ἥ τε τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα βλαστάνοι βέλτιον, αὐταί τε μετὰ ῥώμησ τοὺσ τόκουσ ὑπομένουσαι καλῶσ ἅμα καὶ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀγωνίζοιντο πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 14 2:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ εἰήσαν δύ’ ἐναντίοι νόμοι, καί τινεσ ἀντίδικοι παρ’ ὑμῖν ἀγωνίζοιντο ἢ περὶ δημοσίων ἢ περὶ ἰδίων πραγμάτων, ἀξιοίη δ’ ἑκάτεροσ νικᾶν μὴ τὸν αὐτὸν δεικνύων νόμον, οὔτ’ ἀμφοτέροισ ἔνι δήπου ψηφίσασθαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 46:1)
  • οἱ γὰρ πρὸσ ταῦτα ἀμελῶσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ ἵπποι καὶ ἄνδρεσ εἰκότωσ ἂν ὥσπερ γυναῖκεσ πρὸσ ἄνδρασ ἀγωνίζοιντο. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 3:2)
  • τὸ δὲ πάντων κάλλιστον καὶ μεγαλοπρεπέστατον νομιζόμενον εἶναι ἐπιτήδευμα ἁρματοτροφίαν, ποτέρωσ ἂν δοκεῖσ μᾶλλον κοσμεῖν, εἰ αὐτὸσ πλεῖστα τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἁρ́ματα τρέφοισ τε καὶ πέμποισ εἰσ τὰσ πανηγύρεισ, ἢ εἰ ἐκ τῆσ σῆσ πόλεωσ πλεῖστοι μὲν ἱπποτρόφοι εἰε͂ν, πλεῖστοι δ’ ἀγωνίζοιντο; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 6:1)

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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