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ἐκδοτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκδοτέος ἐκδοτέον

Structure: ἐκδοτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)kdi/dwmi의 분사형,

Sense

  1. one must give up
  2. one must give in marriage

Examples

  • τὴν μὲν γὰρ Ἥραν παραδίδωμι τῷ Διί, τὴν δὲ Βασίλειαν τὴν κόρην γυναῖκ’ ἐμοὶ ἐκδοτέον ἐστίν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:23)
  • ταύτασ ἐκδοτέον ἐμοί ἐστιν καὶ τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ ἐπιτηδείοισ, αἷσ ἂν ἐγὼ ἐπιβιῶ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 14:5)
  • καὶ ὧν ἂν γένωνται οἱ πατέρεσ αὐτῶν ἐμοῦ πλουσιώτεροι, οὐκ ἐκδοτέον· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 15:2)
  • Τανύσιοσ δὲ λέγει Κάτωνα, τῆσ βουλῆσ ἐπὶ τῇ νίκῃ ψηφιζομένησ ἑορτὰσ Καὶ θυσίασ, ἀποφήνασθαι γνώμην ὡσ ἐκδοτέον ἐστὶ τὸν Καίσαρα τοῖσ βαρβάροισ, ἀφοσιουμένουσ τὸ παρασπόνδημα ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ Καὶ τὴν ἀρὰν εἰσ τὸν αἴτιον τρέποντασ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 22 3:1)
  • καίτοι εἰ περὶ τῶν ἀνδροφόνων τῶν ἤδη κεκριμένων τοσαύτη σπουδή, ὅπωσ λόγου καὶ κρίσεωσ καὶ πάντων ὁπόσ’ ἐστὶ δίκαια τεύξονται περὶ τῶν ὕστερον αἰτιῶν, ἦ που περί γε τοῦ μήθ’ ἑαλωκότοσ μήτ’ ἐγνωσμένου πότερον δέδρακεν ἢ οὒ καὶ πότερ’ ἄκων ἢ ἑκών, πάνδεινον γράφειν ὡσ ἐκδοτέον τοῖσ ἐγκαλοῦσιν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 112:3)

Synonyms

  1. one must give up

  2. one must give in marriage

Related

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

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