agones

AGO´NES(ἀγῶνες), the general term among the Greeks for the contests at their great national games. [OLYMPIA, PYTHIA, NEMEA, ISTHMIA. ] The word was also used to signify lawsuits, and was especially employed in the phrase ἀγῶνες τιμητοί and ἀτίμητοι. [TIMEMA]

(ἀγῶνες). (1) A general term used by the Greeks of the contests at the great national festivals. See Olympia; Pythia; Nemea; Isthmia.

(2) As a legal term it is used of lawsuits. See Timema.