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

  • εἰ γὰρ τότε ἠγωνιζόμην, τίσ ἄν μου κατηγόρει; (Andocides, Speeches, 165:3)
  • ὃ τοίνυν ἔπαθον δεινότατον καὶ ἐφ’ ᾧ μάλιστ’ ἐξεπλάγην ὅτ’ ἠγωνιζόμην, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, τοῦθ’ ὑμῖν εἰπεῖν βούλομαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 89:1)
  • κοινῇ γὰρ ἠγωνιζόμην μετὰ σοῦ, ὥσπερ ἔδοξεν ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 52:4)
  • καίτοι ταῦτα μὲν μετρίωσ ποιῶν ἀλλὰ μὴ προθύμωσ οὔτ’ ἂν περὶ φυγῆσ οὔτ’ ἂν περὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ οὐσίασ ἠγωνιζόμην, πλείω δ’ ἂν ἐκεκτήμην, οὐδὲν ἀδικῶν οὐδ’ ἐπικίνδυνον ἐμαυτῷ καταστήσασ τὸν βίον· (Lysias, Speeches, 41:1)
  • εἶτα ὥσπερ μόνοσ ἠγωνιζόμην, οὕτωσ μόνοσ καὶ ἐκινδύνευον· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 18:1)

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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