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Headword:
Ἀγών
Adler number: alpha,327
Translated headword: contest, training, arena
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Training with a view to competitions.[1] [sc. Also attested is the accusative case]
ἀγῶνα ; and
Homer [sc. uses this term for] the actual place where the competition takes place.[2]
Thucydides in [book] 5 [writes]: "he came into the arena and garlanded the charioteer."[3]
Ἀγών: ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἄσκησις. Ἀγῶνα: καὶ Ὅμηρος τὸν τόπον αὐτὸν ἐν ᾧ ἀγωνίζονται. Θουκυδίδης πέμπτῃ: προελθὼν ἐς τὸν ἀγῶνα ἀνέδησε τὸν ἡνίοχον.
Notes:
Apart from the initial glossing (on which see next note), this material also occurs in
Photius.
[1] The word used for 'competitions' here is the (accusative) plural of the headword itself. The Suda seems therefore to be saying, indirectly, that the word denotes both competition and the training for it.
[2] i.e, the arena. Adler cites
Homer,
Iliad 23.273 for this; Theodorides in his
Photius edition chooses
Odyssey 8.260. For instances in other authors (including the one about to be quoted here) see LSJ s.v.
ἀγών I.2.
[3]
Thucydides 5.50.4, on Lichas the Spartan.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@11:00:05.
Vetted by:William Hutton (Altered headword, augmented notes.) on 24 October 2000@11:56:35.
William Hutton (Corrected my own error, raised status.) on 24 October 2000@11:57:26.
William Hutton on 24 October 2000@21:20:16.
David Whitehead (cosmetics in footnote 1) on 25 October 2000@03:07:38.
David Whitehead (augmented keywords) on 9 February 2003@09:01:04.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 January 2012@06:26:01.
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