ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἐπιζητεῖν, εὑρίσκειν καί μή εἴκειν → to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (Tennyson, Ulysses)
alone, by one's own exertions: P. and V. μόνος, V. μοῦνος.