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Headword:
Ἀγώνισμα
Adler number: alpha,336
Translated headword: achievement
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 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.
Ἀγώνισμα: σπουδήν, ἐπιμέλειαν. ἀγώνισμα τίθεται συλλαβεῖν αὐτόν. Ἀριστοφάνης: ἐγὼ δ' εὐξαίμην ἂν ἐντυχεῖν τινι [λείπει θηρίῳ] λαβεῖν τ' ἀγώνισμ' ἄξιόν τι τῆς ὁδοῦ. ἔπαθλον.
Notes:
[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).
[2] Quotation (also in the Lexicon Vindobonense) unidentifiable.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 283-4 (web address 1 below). For the sense of
ἀγώνισμα here (both a struggle and its reward) Dover ad loc. compares
Thucydides 7.59.2 (web address 2 below).
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: athletics; biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2001@15:31:38.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; completed translation; modified and augmented notes) on 21 March 2001@03:27:33.
Jennifer Benedict (Added links) on 11 March 2008@23:57:53.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 January 2012@06:57:04.
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