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ἀθλ-έω , Ion. impf.
A.“ἀέθλεον” Hdt.1.67, 7.212: aor. ἤθλησα (v. infr.): pf. “ἤθληκα” Plu.Demetr.5:—Med., aor. “ἐνηθλησάμην” AP7.117 (Zenod.):—Pass., pf. “κατήθλημαι” Suid.: (ἆθλος, ἆθλον):—commoner form of foreg., used by Hom. only in aor. part., Λαομέδοντι . . ἀθλήσαντε having contended with him, Il.7.453; πολλάπερ ἀθλήσαντα having gone through many struggles, 15.30; contend in battle, Hdt.7.212; “πρός τινα” 1.67; “ἀ. ἄθλους, ἀ. κατὰ τὴν ἀγωνίαν” Pl.Ti.19c and b, cf. Lg.830a; ἤθλησα κινδυνεύματα have engaged in perilous struggles, S.OC564; “φαῦλον ἀθλήσας πόνον” E.Supp. 317; “ἀ. τῷ σώματι” Aeschin.2.147.
II. to be an athlete, contend in games, Simon. 149, CIG2810b (Aphrodisias).
III. hold games, “ἐπ᾽ Ἀρχεμόρῳ” B.8.12.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 147
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 8.12
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 317
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.67
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.212
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.30
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.453
    • Plato, Laws, 830a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 19c
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 564
    • Plutarch, Demetrius, 5
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