The corpus record — Latin

agon

agon · m

a contest

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Where it lives

Ad Martyras 3 · 20.16/10k
De Spectaculis 5 · 7.86/10k
De Scorpiace 4 · 5.02/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 2 · 3.44/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Alexander Severus 2 · 1.87/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăgōn — Lewis & Short

ăgōn, ōnis, m., = a)gw/n,

I gen. w=nos a contest or combat in the public games: gymnicus, Plin. Ep. 4, 22: non esse restituendum Viennensibus agona, id. ib. 4, 22 fin.: musicus, Suet. Ner. 22; so id. ib. 23.—Hence, prov.: nunc demum agon est = nu=n ga/r e)stin a)gw/n, now we must act, now is the time for action, Suet. Ner. 45.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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