A.“ἄγασθε” Od.5.129, Ep. ἀγάασθε ib.119; Ep. inf. “ἀγάασθαι” 16.203: impf. “ἠγάμην” Pl.R.367e, X.Smp.8.8, Ep. 2pl. “ἠγάασθε” Od.5.122: fut. Ep. “ἀγάσσομαι” Od.4.181; later, “ἀγασθήσομαι” Them.Or.27.337b, Themist.Ep.8: aor. “ἠγασάμην” Hom. D.18.204, Plu.Fab.18, etc.; Ep. ἠγάσσατο or “ἀγάσσατο” Il.3.181,224; after Hom. the pass. ἠγάσθην prevails, Hes.Fr.93.2, Sol.33, etc. (Perh. cognate with ἀγα-, q.v.) [α^γα^μαι, but ἠγα_ασθε metri grat., Od. l.c.]
I. abs., wonder, “μνηστῆρες δ᾽ . . ὑπερφιάλως ἀγάσαντο” Od.18.71, etc.; c. part., “Ὀδυσῆος ἀγασσάμεθ᾽ εἶδος ἰδόντες” Il.3.224.
2. more freq. c. acc., admire a person or thing, “τὸν δ᾽ ὁ γέρων ἠγάσσατο” Il.3.181; “ὡς σέ, γύναι, ἄγαμαι” Od.6.168; “μῦθον ἄ.” Il.8.29; “τὸ προορᾶν ἄ. σευ” Hdt.9.79; “ὑμέων ἀγάμεθα τὴν προνοίην” Id.8.144; “οὐκ ἄγαμαι ταῦτ᾽ ἀνδρὸς ἀριστέως” E.IA28; “ταῦτα ἀγασθείς” X.Cyr.2.3.19, cf. Isoc.4.84, etc.: c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, admire one for a thing, Pl.R.426d, X.Cyr.2.3.21.
3. c.gen., wonder at freq. in Com., “ἄγαμαι δὲ λόγων” Ar.Av.1744; “ἄ. κεραμέως αἴθωνος” Eup.21D.; ἄ. σοῦ στόματος, ὡς . . Phryn.Com.10:—also in Prose, X.Mem.2.6.33, Pl.Euthd.276d, etc.
4. c. gen. pers., foll. by part., wonder at one's doing, “ἄ. Ἐρασίνου οὐ προδιδόντος” Hdt.6.76.b'; “ἀ. αὐτοῦ εἰπόντος” Pl.R.329d, etc.; ἄ. τινος ὅτι, . . διότι . . , Id.Hp.Ma.291e, X.Mem.4.2.9, etc.
5. c. dat., to be delighted with a person or thing, Hdt.4.75, Pl.Smp.179c, X.Cyr.2.4.9; later, ἐπί τινι, D.Ep.2.11, Menetor Hist. 1, Phalar.Ep.79.
II. in bad sense, feel envy, bear a grudge, c. dat. pers., “εἰ μή οἱ ἀγάσσατο Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων” Il. 17.71; “ἀγασσάμενοι [μοι] περὶ νίκης” 23.639; with inf. added, to be jealous of one that . . , “σχέτλιοί ἐστε, θεοί, . . οἵ τε θεαῖς ἀγάασθε παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν εὐνάζεσθαι” Od.5.119, 23.211; foll. by a relat., ἔφασκε Ποσειδάων᾽ ἀγάσεσθαι ἡμῖν, οὕνεκα . . 8.565:—Pass. aor. “ἠγάσθην” Hes.Fr. 93.2, dub. in E.HF845.
