ἀγωνίαν (agonian)

ἀγωνίαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγωνιάω, meaning “struggle; be anxious”.

It can also be a form of ἀγωνία, “struggle, anguish”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective or genitive plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 11: οὐ τοίνυν ἄξιον οὐδὲ τὴν τῶν σωμάτων ἀγωνίαν παρορᾶν, ἀλλὰ πέμποντας ἐς παιδοτρίβου τοὺς παῖδας ἱκανῶς ταῦτα διαπονεῖν, ἅμα μὲν τῆς τῶν σωμάτων εὐρυθμίας …

Plutarch, De Genio Socratis 4: … κριτον καὶ τῷ Λυσανορίδᾳ προσαγαγὼν ἰδίᾳ λαλεῖ πολὺν χρόνον ἐκνεύσας τῆς ὁδοῦ μικρὸν ὑπὸ τὸ Ἄμφιον· ὥσθʼ ἡμᾶς ἀγωνιᾶν, μή τις ὑπόνοια προσπέπτωκεν ἢ μήνυσις αὐτοῖς, περὶ ἧς ἀνακρίνουσι τὸν Θεόκριτον. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Φυλλίδας, ὃν οἶ …

All forms of ἀγωνιάω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.