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ἐναγώνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐναγώνιος ἐναγώνιον

Structure: ἐναγωνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a contest, who presided over games

Examples

  • κράτιστον δὲ ἐπιτήδευμα ἐν διαλέκτῳ πολιτικῇ καὶ ἐναγωνίῳ τὸ ὁμοιότατον τῷ κατὰ φύσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 1:4)
  • ἐναγωνίῳ δὲ καὶ ἀντὶ χορηγοῦ καθέστηκεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:10)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a contest

Related

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

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