Ἄγος
pollution, leader
Translated by Malcolm Heath7 Jul 1999Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Pollution, or elbow.1 What is honourable and worthy of reverence is also called agos; hence priesthoods [are called] all-holy [panageis], and a number of other things.2
Thucydides [writes]: "the Spartans sent envoys to Athens demanding the expulsion of the goddess's curse [agos]. It was that against Cylon, the ancient Athenian Olympic victor. [...] And they banished the accursed [enageis]."3
But agos when oxytone [means] leader.4
Thucydides [writes]: "the Spartans sent envoys to Athens demanding the expulsion of the goddess's curse [agos]. It was that against Cylon, the ancient Athenian Olympic victor. [...] And they banished the accursed [enageis]."3
But agos when oxytone [means] leader.4