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Headword:
*)agw/n
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]
a)gw=na; 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]
*)agw/n: h( pro\s tou\s a)gw=nas a)/skhsis. *)agw=na: kai\ *(/omhros to\n to/pon au)to\n e)n w(=| a)gwni/zontai. *qoukudi/dhs pe/mpth|: proelqw\n e)s to\n a)gw=na a)ne/dhse to\n h(ni/oxon.
Notes:
Apart from the initial glossing (on which see next note), this material also occurs in
Photius, Lexicon alpha316 Theodoridis.
[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; Theodoridis chooses
Odyssey 8.260. For instances in other authors (including the one about to be quoted here) see LSJ s.v.
a)gw/n I.2.
[3]
Thucydides 5.50.4, on Lichas the Spartan.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@11:00:05.
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