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

  • ὡσ δ’ ἀπηλλάγησ ποτὲ καὶ τούτου, πάνθ’ ἃ τῶν ἄλλων κατηγορεῖσ αὐτὸσ ποιήσασ, οὐ κατῄσχυνασ μὰ Δί’ οὐδὲν τῶν προϋπηργμένων τῷ μετὰ ταῦτα βίῳ, ἀλλὰ μισθώσασ σαυτὸν τοῖσ βαρυστόνοισ ἐπικαλουμένοισ ἐκείνοισ ὑποκριταῖσ Σιμύκᾳ καὶ Σωκράτει, ἐτριταγωνίστεισ, σῦκα καὶ βότρυσ καὶ ἐλάασ συλλέγων ὥσπερ ὀπωρώνησ ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων χωρίων, πλείω λαμβάνων ἀπὸ τούτων ἢ τῶν ἀγώνων, οὓσ ὑμεῖσ περὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἠγωνίζεσθε· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 373:2)
  • οὐκ ἴσθ’ ὅτι πρὸσ μὲν ἐκείνουσ ἐκ περιουσίασ ἠγωνίζεσθε, ἐν αἷσ δ’ ἦτε ἀνάγκαισ, τότε οὐδένων ἄλλων πλὴν ἡμῶν ἐδεῖσθε, παρεξετάζετε δὲ καὶ τίνεσ οἱ Φωκεῖσ παρὰ τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ καὶ πῶσ ἔχοντεσ αὐτῶν ἑκάτεροι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:6)

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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