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

  • ἆρά γε ὅτι αἰχμητήσ τε κρατερὸσ ἂν εἰή, οὐκ εἰ μόνοσ αὐτὸσ εὖ ἀγωνίζοιτο πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, ἀλλ’ εἰ καὶ παντὶ τῷ στρατοπέδῳ τούτου αἴτιοσ εἰή, καὶ βασιλεὺσ ἀγαθόσ, οὐκ εἰ μόνον τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ βίου καλῶσ προεστήκοι, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί, ὧν βασιλεύοι, τούτοισ εὐδαιμονίασ αἴτιοσ εἰή; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 3:3)
  • καίτοι δικαίωσ γ’ ἄν, ὅστισ φανερῶσ ὥσπερ οὗτοσ προὔδωκε τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, οὐ περὶ τοῦ βουλεύειν ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ δουλεύειν καὶ τῆσ μεγίστησ τιμωρίασ ἀγωνίζοιτο. (Lysias, Speeches, 35:1)
  • καὶ εἰ πρὸσ ἄλλον γε δημιουργὸν ὁντιναοῦν ἀγωνίζοιτο, πείσειεν ἂν αὑτὸν ἑλέσθαι ὁ ῥητορικὸσ μᾶλλον ἢ ἄλλοσ ὁστισοῦν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 57:1)
  • ἔπειτα τὸν μὲν ἰατρὸν φῂσ λιμῷ ἂν ἀποθανεῖν, εἰ πρὸσ τὸν ὀψοποιὸν ἀγωνίζοιτο ἐν παισὶν ἢ τοιούτοισ ἀνθρώποισ, οἳ μὴ δύνανται γνῶναι τἀληθέσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 82:7)
  • καὶ τί ἄν τισ ἀγωνίζοιτο; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 176:12)

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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