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ἐδεστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐδεστέος ἐδεστέον

Structure: ἐδεστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/dw의 분사형,

Sense

  1. one must eat

Examples

  • ταύτῃ ἄρα αὐτῷ πρακτέον καὶ γυμναστέον καὶ ἐδεστέον γε καὶ ποτέον, ᾗ ἂν τῷ ἑνὶ δοκῇ, τῷ ἐπιστάτῃ καὶ ἐπαί̈οντι, μᾶλλον ἢ ᾗ σύμπασι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 27:4)
  • σιτία μὲν γὰρ καὶ ποτὰ πριάμενον παρὰ τοῦ καπήλου καὶ ἐμπόρου ἔξεστιν ἐν ἄλλοισ ἀγγείοισ ἀποφέρειν, καὶ πρὶν δέξασθαι αὐτὰ εἰσ τὸ σῶμα πιόντα ἢ φαγόντα, καταθέμενον οἴκαδε ἔξεστιν συμβουλεύσασθαι, παρακαλέσαντα τὸν ἐπαί̈οντα, ὅτι τε ἐδεστέον ἢ ποτέον καὶ ὅτι μή, καὶ ὁπόσον καὶ ὁπότε· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must eat

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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