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ἀγῶσι (agosi)

ἀγῶσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγω, meaning “to lead, bring, carry off”.

It can also be a form of ἀγών, “contest, gathering, struggle”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.38.1: ‘καὶ μὴν καὶ τῶν πόνων πλείστας ἀναπαύλας τῇ γνώμῃ ἐπορισάμεθα, ἀγῶσι μέν γε καὶ θυσίαις διετησίοις νομίζοντες, ἰδίαις δὲ κατασκευαῖς εὐπρεπέσιν, ὧν καθ’ ἡμέραν ἡ τέρψις τὸ λυπηρὸν ἐκπλήσσει.

Euripides, Andromache 753: πτήξαντες οἵδε πρὸς βίαν ἄγωσί με,

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 28: … ηνας, οὕτω δὴ ἐπισταμένους, ὅτι οὐ μεταδώσουσι τῆς ἀρχῆς; Λακεδαιμόνιοι, μεταιτέειν ἵνα ἐπὶ προφάσεως ἡσυχίαν ἄγωσι τούτων δʼ ὕστερον ἀναμνῆσαί φησιν Ἀρταξέρξην ἀναβάντας εἰς Σοῦσα πρέσβεις Ἀργείων, κἀκεῖνον εἰπεῖν ὡς οὐδεμία …

All forms of ἄγω (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.