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ἀκτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκτέος ἀκτέα ἀκτέον

Structure: ἀκτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must lead, one must keep
  2. one must go or march

Examples

  • κζ Πῶσ ἐπὶ ὀχείαν ἀκτέον τὰσ κύνασ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr29)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν Ἀκτέων’ Ἀρισταίῳ ποτὲ τεκοῦσαν εἶδον Αὐτονόην Ἰνώ θ’ ἅμα ἔτ’ ἀμφὶ δρυμοὺσ οἰστροπλῆγασ ἀθλίασ, τὴν δ’ εἶπέ τίσ μοι δεῦρο βακχείῳ ποδὶ στείχειν Ἀγαύην, οὐδ’ ἄκραντ’ ἠκούσαμεν· (Euripides, episode 2:3)
  • ἔστι δέ, εἰ μὲν ἡσυχίαν Φίλιπποσ ἄγει καὶ μήτε τῶν ἡμετέρων ἔχει παρὰ τὴν εἰρήνην μηδὲν μήτε συσκευάζεται πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ, οὐκέτι δεῖ λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ἁπλῶσ εἰρήνην ἀκτέον, καὶ τά γ’ ἀφ’ ὑμῶν ἕτοιμ’ ὑπάρχονθ’ ὁρῶ· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 7:1)
  • "λεκτέον εἰσ ἅπαντασ, ὦ Γόργε, μᾶλλον δ’ ἀκτέον ἐπὶ τοὺσ νέουσ τούτουσ διθυράμβουσ ὑπερφθεγγόμενον ὃν ἥκεισ λόγον ἡμῖν κομίζων. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 17 4:1)
  • τὴν αὐτὴν τοίνυν ἀρχὴν ἀγαθῶν λαμβάνοντασ ἥνπερ ἡμῶν ἐλάμβανον οἱ πρόγονοι, ταύτην οὐκ ἀκτέον φασὶ τὴν εἰρήνην τινὲσ εἶναι. (Andocides, Speeches, 59:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must lead

  2. one must go or march

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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