A.“-ι^οῦμαι” E.Heracl.992, etc. (in pass. sense, v. infr. B); -ίσομαι only in late writers, as Porph.Abst.1.31; “-ισθήσομαι” Aristid.1.504J.: aor. “ἠγωνισάμην” E.Supp.427, etc.: pf. ἠγώνισμαι (in act. sense) Id Ion939, Ar.V.993, Isoc.18.31 (Pass., v. infr. B): aor. ἠγωνίσθην in pass. sense, infr. B: act. form “ἀγωνίσας” IG4.429 (Sicyon):—
A. contend for a prize, esp. in the public games, Hdt.2.160, al.; “πρός τινα” Pl.R.579c, al.; περί τινος about a thing, Hdt.8.26; “Ὀλυμπίασιν” Pl.Hp.Mi.364a; “περὶ πρωτείων” D.18.66; “ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας” Id.18.177: freq. c. acc. cogn., “ἀ. στάδιον” Hdt.5.22; “τῶν ἀγώνων, οὓς περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς ἠγωνίζεσθε” D.18.262; ἀγῶνα . . τόνδ᾽ ἠγωνίσω thou didst provoke this contest, E.Supp.427, cf.Ion939; “ἠγωνίζου τι ἡμῖν” ; Pl.Ion530a: metaph., “τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς Ὀλύμπια” Porph.Abst. l.c.
2. fight, Hdt.1.76,82, al.; “περὶ τῶν ἁπάντων” Th.6.16; “πρός τινα” Id.1.36, cf. 8.27: c. acc. cogn., μῶν τι κεδνὸν-ίζετο; E.Heracl. 795; [“μάχην] -ίσαντο” E.Supp.637.
3. contend for the prize on the stage, of the rhapsode, Hdt.5.67; of the playwright, Ar.Ach.140,419; of the actor, D.19.246, cf. 250, Arist.Po.1451a8; of the choragus, D. 21.66: c. acc., “δράματα” IG12(7).226 (Amorgos): generally, contend for victory, “καλῶς . . ἠγώνισαι” Pl.Smp.194a, cf. Mx.235d; argue, ὅλψ τῷ πράγματι about the question as a whole, Hp.Mi.369c; esp. argue sophistically, opp. διαλέγομαι, Tht.167e.
II. contend in court, as law term, Antipho 5.7: c. acc. cogn., ἀ. δίκην, γραφήν fight a cause to the last, Lys.3.20, D.23.100; ἀ. ψευδομαρτυριῶν (sc. γραφήν) Id.24.131; “ἀ. ἀγῶνα” And. 1.20, Lys.7,39; ἀ, φόνον fight against a charge of murder, E.Andr. 336; αὐτοῖς ἀ. τοῖς πράγμασιν grapple with the facts of the case, Arist. Rh.1404a5.
B. Pass., to be decided by contest, brought to issue, mostly in pf., “πολλοὶ ἀγῶνες ἀγωνίδαται” Hdt.9.26; τὰ ἠγωνισμένα points at issue, E.Supp.465, D.24.145: rarely in pres., ὁ ἀγωνιζόμενος νόμος the law on trial, D.24.28; or aor., “δεινὸς . . κίνδυνος ὑπὲρ τῆς . . ἐλευθερίας ἠγωνίσθη” Lys.2.34; ἠγωνίσθη λαμπρῶς (impers.) Plu.Sert.21: fut. Med. in pass. sense, ἀγωνιεῖται καὶ κριθήσεται τὸ πρᾶγμα shall be brought to issue and determined, D.21.7.