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Headword:
Agôniô
Adler number: alpha,334
Translated headword: I am in a torment
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I am at risk;[1] also the [verb that means] I am afraid.
Polybius [writes]: "many of the inland cities joined the Romans, in a torment about their land forces."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the participle]
a)gwniw=n ["being in a torment"], [meaning someone] fearing.
"Fearing the fickleness of the Celts and the plots against his life."[3]
"But he feared the soldiers, if the ration-money were to run out."[4]
Also [sc. attested in the plural]
a)gwniw=ntes, meaning rivalling.
Isocrates [sc. uses the term].[5]
Agôniô: kinduneuô: kai to phoboumai. Polubios: pollai de poleis prosetithento tôn mesogaiôn tois Rhômaiois, agôniôsai tas pezikas dunameis. kai Agôniôn, dediôs. agôniôn de tên athesian tôn Keltôn kai tas epiboulas tas peri to sôma. êgônia de tous stratiôtas, mê epileipêi ta opsônia. kai Agôniôntes, anti tou agônizomenoi. Isokratês.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica.
[2]
Polybius 1.20.6 (web address 1).
[3]
Polybius 3.78.2 (web address 2); again at
alpha 722.
[4]
Polybius fr.(?) 94 Büttner-Wobst; Although Büttner-Wobst is reluctant to accept the attribution by Schweighäuser of this fragment to
Polybius, he does note (p. 527) its acceptance by Dindorf.
[5]
Isocrates 4.91 (web address 3), cited from Harpokration s.v.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2001@01:58:57.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; completed and modified translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 20 March 2001@07:02:52.
David Whitehead (restorative cosmetics) on 17 February 2003@07:42:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 27 November 2005@09:39:58.
Jennifer Benedict (Updated link to Perseus) on 11 March 2008@23:54:25.
David Whitehead (augmented n.4; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 July 2011@05:03:14.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 9 April 2015@09:32:11.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 19 February 2018@19:50:33.
Ronald Allen (added links, added bibliography, supplemented notes) on 26 April 2018@00:15:25.
Ronald Allen (rearranged n4, cosmeticule in bibliography) on 5 June 2018@00:30:56.
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