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Ἄγοι · may hold (α 381) · Suda

Letters

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near α381

α377boorish in anger
α378don't despise a rustic rhetor
α379from-Agroile; Agryle
α380rustic
α381may hold
α382alleyway, path
α383highways
α384Agylaios, Agylaeus
α385Agyrrhios, Agyrrhius

Suda/Α alpha/α381

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Ἄγοι

may hold

Translated by Anne Mahoney27 Mar 1999Vetting: high6 revisions

definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
law
philosophy
rhetoric

2 notes · 59 words

Translation

[sc. This verb] signifies many things. Isaeus used [it] to mean to carry and to lead in and to drag: "for Xenocles hurt me", he says, "by taking Eumathes off into freedom, when I was leading [him] into slavery."¹ But Antiphon adopted a)/goi to mean considered/held: for he says in the On Truth "may [he] hold the laws great."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄγοι· πολλὰ σημαίνει. Ἰσαῖος δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ φέρειν καὶ ἐνάγειν καὶ ἕλκειν ἔλαβεν· ἔβλαψε γάρ με, φησί, Ξενοκλῆς ἀφελόμενος Εὐμάθην εἰς ἐλευθερίαν, ἄγοντος ἐμοῦ εἰς δουλείαν. Ἀντιφῶν δὲ τὸ ἄγοι ἀντὶ τοῦ ἡγεῖτο παρείληφε· φησὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἀληθείας· τοὺς νόμους μεγάλους ἄγοι.

Betacode

*)/agoi: polla\ shmai/nei. *)isai=os de\ a)nti\ tou= fe/rein kai\ e)na/gein kai\ e(/lkein e)/laben: e)/blaye ga/r me, fhsi/, *cenoklh=s a)felo/menos *eu)ma/qhn ei)s e)leuqeri/an, a)/gontos e)mou= ei)s doulei/an. *)antifw=n de\ to\ a)/goi a)nti\ tou= h(gei=to parei/lhfe: fhsi\ ga\r e)n tw=| peri\ a)lhqei/as: tou\s no/mous mega/lous a)/goi.

Notes (2)

Abridged from Harpokration s.v. The headword is present optative, third person singular, of the verb a)/gw, presumably quoted from Antiphon (see below); but other material intervenes.
1Isaeus fr. 67 Sauppe. On the legal procedures involved here, see in brief S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 186-7. ↩
2Antiphon (the sophist) B87 F44A1.18 Diels/Kranz.

Neighbouring entries

α379Ἀγροιλῆθενfrom-Agroile; Agryle α380Ἀγροιώτηςrustic α381Ἄγοιmay hold α382Ἀγυιάνalleyway, path α383Ἀγυιαίhighways

Revision history6 revisions · last 9 Apr 2015

9 Apr 2015note tweak — David Whitehead
19 Jul 2011augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
14 Apr 2004augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
29 Sep 2000modified translation; augmented notes; added keyword — David Whitehead
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27 Mar 1999Translated — Anne Mahoney

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἄγοι (Adler number alpha 381), trans. Anne Mahoney, 27 Mar 1999. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/381

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