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ἑκτέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: hekteos

Principal Part: ἑκτέος ἑκτέα ἑκτέον

Structure: ἑκτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἔχω의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be held
  2. one must have

Examples

  • ὦ Ξανθία, σφῷν δ ἐστὶν ὀρθὸς ἑκτέος ὁ φαλλὸς ἐξόπισθε τῆς κανηφόρου: (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene12)
  • οἶσθ οὖν ἀπολωλεκυῖα πυρῶν ἑκτέα, ὃν χρῆν ἔμ ἐξ ἐκκλησίας εἰληφέναι· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Choral, iambics 1:8)
  • "ἐπιμελεῖσθαι δὲ τὸν βασιλεύοντα τῶν τε ἀρχόντων ὅπως ἂν καθιστῶνται καὶ τοὺς παρασίτους ἐκ τῶν δήμων αἱρῶνται κατὰ τὰ γεγραμμένα, τοὺς δὲ παρασίτους ἐκ τῆς βουκολίας ἐκλέγειν ἐκ τοῦ μέρους τοῦ ἑαυτῶν ἕκαστον ἑκτέα κριθῶν δαίνυσθαί τε τοὺς ὄντας Ἀθηναίων ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ κατὰ τὰ πάτρια, τὸν δ ἑκτέα παρέχειν εἰς τὰ ἀρχεῖα τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τοὺς Ἀχαρνέων παρασίτους ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκλογῆς τῶν κριθῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 27 1:5)
  • πρὸς πάντας δὴ τούτους τοὺς θανάτους ἐλαφρῶς ἑκτέον, εἰδότας ὅτι τὴν μοῖραν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκφυγεῖν πεπαιδευμένων δ ἐστὶν ἀνθρώπων προσειληφέναι ὅτι βραχὺν χρόνον προειλήφασιν ἡμᾶς οἱ δοκοῦντες ἀώροι τοῦ ζῆν ἐστερῆσθαι: (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be held

  2. one must have

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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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