His failure to win the prize at the quinquennial Agon Capitolinus in 94 A.
Sulpicius Maximus, who at the age of twelve and a half won the prize for Greek verse at the Agon Capitolinus A.
Look out,' I said, aloud; and as I said it, I saw Agon bend forward and touch something on the altar.
I only wished that old Agon could have heard her, it would have frightened him.
We had indeed heard no more of those confounded hippopotami, but it is not on that account to be supposed that our sacrilege was forgotten, or the enmity of the great and powerful priesthood headed by Agon appeased.
Umslopogaas gripped Inkosi-kaas with both hands and whirled on high and drave her right on to his venerable head, so that Agon rolled down dead among the corpses of his fellow-murderers, and there was an end to him and his plots altogether.
This being so, Nyleptha could not have appealed to a worse person, for, speaking in slow, heavy tones, he appeared to confirm all that the High Priest Agonhad said.
Agon saw this and hesitated, and then for the first time Nyleptha spoke in her soft sweet voice.
Next she drew a lovely little picture of a hippopotamus rolling about dying in the water, and of an individual, in whom we had no difficulty in recognizing Agon the High Priest, holding up his hands in horror on the bank.
Then the High Priest Agon turned, and his face was as the face of a devil.
I observed that Nyleptha listened very closely to every word, and afterwards discovered that she was afraid lest Agon should play her a trick, and by going through the invocations backwards divorce them instead of marry them.
Of course we said yes, and off we went to the chapel, where we found Agon looking as sulky as any High Priest possibly could, and no wonder.
When we knew that Agon was caught, Nyleptha, Sir Henry, and I discussed what was to be done with him.
The type of Agon is assimilated to that of Eros on R.
Thit hede wi den thrvch athskip to fara Nearchus, hwand wi him far basterd blod bikande thrvch sin friska hud and blawa agon mith wit her.
Willath wi fry bilywa, alsa agon tha knapa that lesa and skryva farhondis afterwei-n to letane and in stede that hja invppa meide hwip and swik spele, moton hja mith swerd and sper spela.
Thju Burchfam fon Forana seide my, that tha burchhera deistik to-ra gvngon vmb ra to lerande, hwat afte frydom sy, and ho tha manniska an there minne agon to levane vmbe sejen to winnande fon Wr.
Ik gvng to and seide: nw wi-n Moder have agon wi hjra red to frejande.
Berth-et navt to min that-er en arg man mong sy, tham tha ljud bitrogha wil, sa agon tha ora that to werane.
Recent editions of Hesiod include the [Greek: Agon Homerou kai Hesiodou], the contest of song between Homer and Hesiod at the funeral games held in honour of King Amphidamas at Chalcis.
Marckscheffel in 1840; for the [Greek: Agon Homerou] (ed.
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