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

  • τότε ὁ βασιλεύσ, ὡσ τὸ ρῆμα ἤκουσε, πολὺ ἐλυπήθη ἐπ’ αὐτῷ καὶ περὶ τοῦ Δανιὴλ ἠγωνίσατο τοῦ ἐξελέσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἕωσ ἑσπέρασ ἦν ἀγωνιζόμενοσ τοῦ ἐξελέσθαι αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:14)
  • εἰ γοῦν καὶ Λούκουλλοσ ἐτελεύτησεν ἀγωνιζόμενοσ καὶ στρατηγῶν, οὐδ’ ἂν ὁ ψογερώτατοσ καὶ φιλομεμφότατοσ εὑρεῖν μοι δοκεῖ διαβολὴν ἐπ’ αὐτόν, καὶ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τῆσ διαίτησ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 1 7:2)
  • ἔνιοι δέ φασιν ἐκ τραύματοσ, ὃ πρὸσ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ ἀγωνιζόμενοσ ἔσχε. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:2)
  • ἀγωνιζόμενοσ δέ ποτε πρὸσ καταδεέστερον ἐν Σάμῳ τὸν Αἰάντα καὶ ἡττηθείσ, συναχθομένων αὐτῷ τῶν φίλων, ἔφη ὡσ αὐτὸσ μὲν ὀλίγον φροντίζοι, Αἰάντι δὲ συνάχθοιτο δεύτερον ἡττηθέντι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 62 2:5)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ἀποκτεῖναι μέν τισ ὁμολογῇ, φῇ δὲ κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, οἱο͂ν μοιχὸν λαβών, ἢ ἐν πολέμῳ ἀγνοήσασ, ἢ ἐν ἄθλῳ ἀγωνιζόμενοσ, τούτῳ ἐπὶ Δελφινίῳ δικάζουσιν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 3:4)

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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