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ᾀστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ᾀστέος ᾀστέη ᾀστέον

Structure: ᾀστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/idw

Sense

  1. one must sing

Examples

  • αἰεὶ δ’ ἐν λόχοισ εὑρίσκεται Θυμβραῖον ἀμφὶ βωμὸν ἄστεωσ πέλασ θάσσων· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:13)
  • καὶ τούτων μὲν οὐ θαυμάζω, ὑμῶν δὲ τῶν ἀκροωμένων, ὅτι πάντων ἐστὲ ἐπιλησμονέστατοι ἢ πάσχειν ἑτοιμότατοι κακῶσ ὑπὸ τοιούτων ἀνδρῶν, οἳ τῇ μὲν τύχῃ τῶν Πειραιεῖ πραγμάτων μετέσχον, τῇ δὲ γνώμῃ τῶν ἐξ ἄστεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 1:1)
  • καὶ πῶσ δι’ ἄστεωσ εἶμι Καδμείουσ λαθών; (Euripides, episode, trochees 11:38)
  • χρῄζω δέ νιν γέλωτα Θηβαίοισ ὀφλεῖν γυναικόμορφον ἀγόμενον δι’ ἄστεωσ ἐκ τῶν ἀπειλῶν τῶν πρίν, αἷσι δεινὸσ ἦν. (Euripides, episode, trochees 12:6)
  • ἐκ τοῦ δὲ ναίεισ ἐνθάδ’ ἄστεωσ ἑκάσ; (Euripides, episode37)

Synonyms

  1. one must sing

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

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