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βασανιστέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: basanisteos

Principal Part: βασανιστέος βασανιστέα βασανιστέον

Structure: βασανιστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: βασανίζω의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be put to the proof
  2. one must put to the torture

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

  • ου γὰρ ἔτ ἀνεκτὰ τάδε γ, ἀλλὰ βασανιστέον τόδε σοι τὸ πάθος μετ ἐμοῦ ὅ τι βουλόμεναί ποτε τὴν Κραναὰν κατέλαβον, ἐφ ὅ τι τε μεγαλόπετρον ἄβατον ἀκρόπολιν ἱερὸν τέμενος. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, strophe 12)
  • περὶ τοίνυν τῆς ἐκδόσεως καὶ τῶν κλινοποιῶν καὶ τοῦ σιδήρου καὶ τοῦ καταλειφθέντος ἡμῖν ἐλέφαντος καὶ τῆς προικὸς τῆς ἀδελφῆς, ἣν οὗτος καθυφεῖκεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔχειν ὅσα βούλοιτο τῶν ἐμῶν, ἀκούσατε, καὶ σκοπεῖθ ὡς δικαίως τ ὤφληκεν καὶ οὐδὲν ἦν Μιλύαν περὶ τούτων βασανιστέον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 48:1)
  • βασανιστέοι εἰ ἐμμενοῦσιν ἑλκόμενοι πανταχόσε ἤ τι καὶ παρακινήσουσι. (Plato, Republic, book 7 515:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be put to the proof

  2. one must put to the torture

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

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