A.of or belonging to the contest, ἄεθλος ἀ. its prize, Pi.I.5(4).7; “εὖχος” Id.O.10(11).6<*>; “πούς” Simon.29:— epith. of Hermes as president of games, Pi.I.1.60, cf. IG5(1).658; of Zeus as decider of the contest, S.Tr.26:—ἀ. θεοί, in A.Ag.513, Supp.189,242, Pl.Lg.783a, either gods in assembly, or the gods who presided over the great games (Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, and Hermes), = ἀγοραῖοι θ., Eust.1335.58.
ἀγών-ιος (A), ον,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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