previous next
ἄγα^μαι [α^], 2pl.
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.
2. c. acc, to be jealous of, angry at a thing, “ἀγασσάμενοι κακὰ ἔργα” Od.2.67; of Gods, 4.181, cf. 23.64. Cf. ἀγαίομαι.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (39 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (39):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1744
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 204
    • Euripides, Heracles, 845
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 28
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.75
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.76
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.144
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.79
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.181
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.119
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.122
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.203
    • Homer, Odyssey, 23.211
    • Homer, Odyssey, 23.64
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.181
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.129
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 84
    • Plato, Republic, 426d
    • Plato, Republic, 329d
    • Plato, Republic, 367e
    • Plato, Symposium, 179c
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 276d
    • Plato, Greater Hippias, 291e
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.3.21
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.4.9
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.3.19
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.6.33
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.9
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 8.8
    • Demosthenes, Letters, 2.11
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.71
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.639
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.224
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.29
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.71
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.67
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.168
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.565
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 18
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: