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ἐγχειρητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχειρητέος ἐγχειρητέον

Structure: ἐγχειρητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)gxeire/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must undertake

Examples

  • οἶδα μὲν ὅτι τῆσ Ἀγησιλάου ἀρετῆσ τε καὶ δόξησ οὐ ῥᾴδιον ἄξιον ἔπαινον γράψαι, ὅμωσ δ’ ἐγχειρητέον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 2:1)
  • ὧν ἕνεκα ἢ οὐκ ἐγχειρητέον ἄρχειν ἢ τοῦτο σὺν τῇ ἄλλῃ παρασκευῇ καὶ παρὰ θεῶν αἰτητέον δύνασθαι ποιεῖν καὶ αὐτῷ μηχανητέον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 13:2)
  • ἀλλ̓ ἵνα μὴ πολλὰ πρὸ τοῦ πράγματοσ, ἤδη οἷσ προσέταξασ ἐγχειρητέον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 7:1)
  • διὰ δὲ μουσικῆσ αὐτὸν ἐγχειρητέον δηλῶσαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 283:4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἐντεῦθεν ἔστι μὲν οὐ κατ’ ἄνθρωπον διηγήσασθαι, ἐγχειρητέον δὲ, ὥσπερ ὑπεθέμην, ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆσ ἔνια αὐτῶν διελθεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:12)

Synonyms

  1. one must undertake

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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