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ἄθλησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: athlēsis

Principal Part: ἄθλησις

Structure: ἀθλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἀθλέω

Sense

  1. a contest, struggle

Declension

Third declension

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

  • πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ὁ Ξενοφάνης κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σοφίαν ἐπαγωνίζεται, διαβάλλων ὡς ἄχρηστον καὶ ἀλυσιτελὲς τὸ τῆς ἀθλήσεως εἶδος. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 6 3:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ παλαίειν εὐφυῶς ἐδόκει καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄθλησιν ἔνιοι τῶν φίλων καὶ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων, ἠρώτησεν αὐτούς μή τι πρὸς τὴν στρατιωτικὴν ἄσκησιν ὑπὸ τῆς ἀθλήσεως βλαβήσοιτο. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 3 2:1)
  • καὶ τοίνυν τῆς ἀθλήσεως εἵλετο οὐ τὸ ῥᾷστον, ἀλλὰ τὸ χαλεπώτατον: (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:3)
  • ὅσα δὲ αὖ περὶ ἀθλήσεως, καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀθλητοῦ εἴρηκα ἀποδειχθέντος γε ὅτι ἄριστός ἐστι τῶν ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:2)
  • τοιοῦτος μέντοι ὢν ἀθλίως ἐτελεύτησε, τῶν μὲν πόνων τῆς ἀθλήσεως ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐλθών, τῶν δὲ ἐν τῷ βίῳ τερπνῶν οὐδενὸς πειραθείς. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. a contest

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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