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ἀγων-ία , ἡ,
A.contest, struggle for victory, “ἀγὼν διὰ πάσης ἀγωνίης ἔχων” Hdt.2.91; “πολεμίων ἀ.” E.Hec.314, cf. Tr.1003; esp. in games, Pi.O.2.52, P.5.113:—also in Prose, “ἐν δημοτικῇ ἀ.” X.Cyr.2.3.15; ἅπασαν ἀ. ἐκτεἶναι [D.]60.30, etc.
2. gymnastic exercise, Hp.Art. 11, Pl.Men.94b, Lg.765c, etc.: generally, exercise, Id.Grg.456d sq., R.618b.
3. of the mind, agony, anguish, “ἐν φόβῳ καὶ πολλῇ ἀ.” D.18.33, cf. Men.534.12 (pl.), Arist.Pr.869b6; “ἐν τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς φόβοις, ἐλπίσιν, ἀγωνίαις” Id.Spir.483a5; cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.248, al., Phld.Ir.p 56 W. (pl.), Nic.Dam.Vit. Caes.9.
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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