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προαγών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαγών προαγῶνος

Structure: προαγων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a preliminary contest, prelude, the preparation

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

  • καὶ μὴν τό γε τοῦ θορύβου τε καὶ τῆσ εὐνοίασ, μᾶλλον δὲ, εἰ χρὴ τἀληθὲσ εἰπεῖν, ἐνθουσιασμοῦ, τοσοῦτον παρὰ πάντων συνέβη ὥστε οὐδεὶσ ὤφθη καθήμενοσ οὔτ’ ἐπὶ τοῦ προαγῶνοσ οὔθ’ ἡνίκα ἀναστὰσ ἠγωνιζόμην, ἀλλ’ ἐκ πρώτου ῥήματοσ εἱστήκεσαν, ὤδινον, ἐγάνυντο, ἐξεπλήττοντο, συμπαρένευον τοῖσ λεγομένοισ, ἠφίεσαν φωνὰσ οὔπω πρόσθεν γενομένασ, πᾶσ τισ αὑτοῦ τὸ κέρδοσ ποιούμενοσ, εἴ τι νείμαι τῶν μεγίστων ἐμοί. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:4)
  • οὕτω δὲ δεινοῦ γενομένου τοῦ προάγωνοσ οὐκ ἔσχεν ὁ ἀγὼν τέλοσ ἐπιεικέστερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ δράσαντεσ ἴσα καὶ παθόντεσ οἱ στρατοὶ διεκρίθησαν ὑπὸ χειμῶνοσ. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 9 2:2)

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

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