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ἐπαγωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαγωνίζομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + ἀγωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend with
  2. to contend for

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

  • 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)
  • κατὰ λέξιν δὲ γίνεται βραχύτησ καὶ συντομία, ὅταν τισ μὴ ταῖσ παραφραστικαῖσ τῶν λέξεων, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ εὐθείαισ χρῆται, ὅταν μὴ ἐπαγωνίζηται τῇ λέξει τὰ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα παρατιθείσ, ἀλλὰ δηλώσασ τὸ πρᾶγμα τῇ σημαινούσῃ λέξει εὐθὺσ ἀπαλλαγῇ καὶ ἐν ὀλίγῳ, καὶ ὅταν τισ μὴ φιλοτιμῆται πρὸσ τὴν λέξιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὰ πράγματα ἀποβλέπῃ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 3:1)
  • χωρὶσ δὲ τούτων ἑτέροισ ἔξωθεν ἐπαγωνίζονται τεκμηρίοισ οἱ τὸν ἄνδρα τῷ ἀνδρὶ συνοικειοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 8 9:1)
  • Ἀγαπητοί, πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ποιούμενοσ γράφειν ὑμῖν περὶ τῆσ κοινῆσ ἡμῶν σωτηρίασ ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γράψαι ὑμῖν παρακαλῶν ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖσ ἁγίοισ πίστει. (IOUDA, chapter 1 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend with

  2. to contend for

Derived

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

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