ἐπᾰγωνίζομαι,
contend with, τινί [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 23 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; continue to attack, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator “Epistulae” 2.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with dative of things, contend in, εὐνοίᾳ [[ “IG” 12(5).860.19 (from Tenos)] Refs]; contend for, τῇ πίστει [[ NT.Jude.3 ] NT]: lay stress on, ἐ. τῷ λόγῳ [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.246; τεκμηρίοις ἐ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 8; ἐ. τῇ λέξει τὰ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα παρατιθείς 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “τέχναι ῥητορικαί” 1p.500S.: _absolutely_, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 3.93 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; exertoneself, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1343.16. ] Refs]
__3 contend again, in games, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 7.6. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3.b speak after a person, follow him, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.25.7; ἐ. τῷ λόγῳ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Argumenta Orationum Demosthenicarum” 22. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]