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Ἀγώνισμα · achievement, prize (α 336) · Suda

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Ἀγώνισμα

achievement, prize

Translated by Jennifer Benedict20 Mar 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 35 words

Translation

[Meaning] effort, diligence.¹
"An achievement is there for him to take".²
Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey."³
A prize.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀγώνισμα· σπουδήν, ἐπιμέλειαν. ἀγώνισμα τίθεται συλλαβεῖν αὐτόν. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐγὼ δ' εὐξαίμην ἂν ἐντυχεῖν τινι [λείπει θηρίῳ] λαβεῖν τ' ἀγώνισμ' ἄξιόν τι τῆς ὁδοῦ. ἔπαθλον.

Betacode

*)agw/nisma: spoudh/n, e)pime/leian. a)gw/nisma ti/qetai sullabei=n au)to/n. *)aristofa/nhs: e)gw\ d' eu)cai/mhn a)\n e)ntuxei=n tini [lei/pei qhri/w|] labei=n t' a)gw/nism' a)/cio/n ti th=s o(dou=. e)/paqlon.

Notes (2)

[1] This glossing shows that the headword, a neuter noun, is in the accusative case, and thus extracted from somewhere other than the quotation about to be given (where it is nominative).
2Quotation (also in the Lexicon Vindobonense) unidentifiable. ↩
3Aristophanes, Frogs 283-4 (web address 1 below). For the sense of a)gw/nisma here (both a struggle and its reward) Dover ad loc. compares Thucydides 7.59.2 (web address 2 below).

References

Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

α334ἈγωνιῶI am in a torment α335ἈγωνίςAgonis α336Ἀγώνισμαachievement, prize α337Ἀγώνων χοῶνthan unfruitful drink-offerings α338Ἀγωνοθέτηςagonothete

Revision history5 revisions · last 9 Apr 2015

9 Apr 2015tweaking — David Whitehead
29 Mar 2015coding — Catharine Roth
6 Jan 2012augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Mar 2008Added links — Jennifer Benedict
21 Mar 2001modified headword; completed translation; modified and augmented notes — David Whitehead
20 Mar 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀγώνισμα (Adler number alpha 336), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 20 Mar 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/336

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗