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ἀνδριστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνδριστέος ἀνδριστέη ἀνδριστέον

Structure: ἀνδριστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ndri/zomai.

Sense

  1. one must play the man

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • παρίωμεν εἰσ τὴν ψυχὴν ὡσ τῶν λόγων κινδυνεύει οὐδὲν ὑγιὲσ εἶναι, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον ὅτι ἡμεῖσ οὔπω ὑγιῶσ ἔχομεν, ἀλλὰ ἀνδριστέον καὶ προθυμητέον ὑγιῶσ ἔχειν, σοὶ μὲν οὖν καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ καὶ τοῦ ἔπειτα βίου παντὸσ ἕνεκα, ἐμοὶ δὲ αὐτοῦ ἕνεκα τοῦ θανάτου, ὡσ κινδυνεύω ἔγωγε ἐν τῷ παρόντι περὶ αὐτοῦ τούτου οὐ φιλοσόφωσ ἔχειν ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ πάνυ ἀπαίδευτοι φιλονίκωσ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 570:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must play the man

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

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