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ἀνδριστέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: andristeos

Principal Part: ἀνδριστέος ἀνδριστέη ἀνδριστέον

Structure: ἀνδριστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one must play the man

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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