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ἐξευρετέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: exeureteos

Principal Part: ἐξευρετέος ἐξευρετέα ἐξευρετέον

Structure: ἐξευρετε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐξευρίσκω

Sense

  1. to be discovered
  2. one must find out

Examples

  • ἐξευρετέος γὰρ νοῦς ἀποστερητικὸς κἀπαιόλημ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics19)
  • ἀλλ ἐάν τις ποιῇ ἐν οἷς ταῦτα τὰ ἰαμβεῖα ἔνεστιν, τὰ τῆς Νιόβης πάθη, ἢ τὰ Πελοπιδῶν ἢ τὰ Τρωικὰ ἤ τι ἄλλο τῶν τοιούτων, ἢ οὐ θεοῦ ἔργα ἐατέον αὐτὰ λέγειν, ἢ εἰ θεοῦ, ἐξευρετέον αὐτοῖς σχεδὸν ὃν νῦν ἡμεῖς λόγον ζητοῦμεν, καὶ λεκτέον ὡς ὁ μὲν θεὸς δίκαιά τε καὶ ἀγαθὰ ἠργάζετο, οἱ δὲ ὠνίναντο κολαζόμενοι: (Plato, Republic, book 2 395:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be discovered

  2. one must find out

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

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