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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

  • "ἡ τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα καλῶσ βλαστάνῃ, αὐταὶ τε μετὰ ῥώμησ τοὺσ τόκουσ ὑπομένουσαι ῥᾳδίωσ τε ἅμα καὶ καλῶσ ἀγωνίζωνται πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ, καὶ, εἴ τισ ἀνάγκη γένοιτο, δύνωνται ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν καὶ τέκνων καὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ μάχεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 121)
  • "τε ἅμα καὶ καλῶσ ἀγωνίζωνται πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 123)
  • ὅτε γὰρ Ὑπερείδησ ἔγραψε, τῶν περὶ Χαιρώνειαν ἀτυχημάτων τοῖσ Ἕλλησι γενομένων, καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τῶν ἐδαφῶν εἰσ κίνδυνον μέγιστον κατακεκλειμένησ, εἶναι τοὺσ ἀτίμουσ ἐπιτίμουσ, ἵν’ ὁμονοοῦντεσ ἅπαντεσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ προθύμωσ ἀγωνίζωνται, ἐάν τισ κίνδυνοσ τηλικοῦτοσ καταλαμβάνῃ τὴν πόλιν, τούτου τοῦ ψηφίσματοσ γραφὴν παρανόμων ἀπενέγκασ ἠγωνίζετ’ ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 12:1)
  • ὥστ’ οὐδὲν ἀπεικὸσ ὑμᾶσ ἀηδέστερον ἢ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ἔχειν, ὁπόταν ταῦτα ἀγωνίζωνται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 72:7)
  • κεκομμένοι γὰρ καὶ τεταλαιπωρηκότεσ τάχα δὴ τὴν Καδμείαν νίκην νενικηκότεσ αἰσθήσονται, πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἀκεραίουσ καὶ καθαροὺσ ἐὰν ἀγωνίζωνται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 12:4)

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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