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ἐπιθετέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιθετέος ἐπιθετέον

Structure: ἐπιθετε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)piti/qhmi의 분사형,

Sense

  1. one must impose
  2. one must set to work at

Examples

  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ οὐδαμῇ ταύτῃ ἥνυτον, ἔδοξέ μοι ἐπιθετέον εἶναι τῷ ἀνδρὶ κατὰ τὸ καρτερὸν καὶ οὐκ ἀνετέον, ἐπειδήπερ ἐνεκεχειρήκη, ἀλλὰ ἰστέον ἤδη τί ἐστι τὸ πρᾶγμα. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 487:3)
  • εἰ δὲ ἔστιν ἀληθῆ, τὸν βουλόμενον, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, εὐδαίμονα εἶναι σωφροσύνην μὲν διωκτέον καὶ ἀσκητέον, ἀκολασίαν δὲ φευκτέον ὡσ ἔχει ποδῶν ἕκαστοσ ἡμῶν, καὶ παρασκευαστέον μάλιστα μὲν μηδὲν δεῖσθαι τοῦ κολάζεσθαι, ἐὰν δὲ δεηθῇ ἢ αὐτὸσ ἢ ἄλλοσ τισ τῶν οἰκείων, ἢ ἰδιώτησ ἢ πόλισ, ἐπιθετέον δίκην καὶ κολαστέον, εἰ μέλλει εὐδαίμων εἶναι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 367:2)
  • νῦν οὖν καὶ μάλιστα ἐπιθετέον αὐτῷ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 92:2)

Synonyms

  1. one must impose

  2. one must set to work at

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

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