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διενεκτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διενεκτέος διενεκτέον

Structure: διενεκτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diafe/rw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must excel

Examples

  • ὁ δέ μοι λόγοσ οὐκ ὑποθημοσύνην ἔχει οὐδὲ διδασκαλίην ἐπαγγέλλεται ὅκωσ ταύτην τὴν μαντοσύνην διενεκτέον, ἀλλὰ μέμφομαι ὁκόσοι σοφοὶ ἐόντεσ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἐπασκέουσι καὶ παισὶ ^ τοῖσ ἑωυτῶν ἀπηγέονται, μούνην δὲ ἀστρολογίην οὔτε τιμέουσιν οὔτε ἐπασκέουσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. one must excel

Similar forms

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

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