Samson Agonistes (the title of Milton’s drama) means Samson wrestling with adversity—Samson combating with trouble. (Greek, agoniʹzomai, to combat, to struggle.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.