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προα^γων-ίζομαι ,
A.fight before, ἐξ ὧν προηγώνισθε from the contests you have before had, Th.4.126; “π. περί τινος” D.S.19.26; οὐ προηγωνισμένη δύναμις not having been engaged before, Hdn.3.7.6:—Pass., “οἱ προηγωνισμένοι ἀγῶνες” Plu.Arist.12; “τὰ μὲν οὖν τῶν λόγων προηγώνιστο αὐτοῖς” Luc.Eun.4.
II. fight in front of, “ἡγεμόνες τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων προαγωνιζόμενοι” D.S.17.34; “χώρα προαγωνιζομένη τῆς φάλαγγος ὅλης” D.H.4.16: abs., Ph.2.379; fight for or in defence of another, ib.177, Plu.Flam.11, etc.; plead in behalf of, c. acc. cogn., “π. Ἀθηναίων οὐ μικρὸν ἀγώνισμα” Philostr.VS1.18.4.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.34
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.126
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 12
    • Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, 11
    • Lucian, Eunuchus, 4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.26
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.16
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.18.4
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