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φειστέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: pheisteos

Principal Part: φειστέος φειστέον

Structure: φειστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φείδομαι의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must spare

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅθεν οὐδ ἐπαίνου φειστέον οὐδὲ τιμῆς περὶ ἀνδρὸς ἐχθροῦ δικαίως εὐδοκιμήσαντος. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 9 5:1)
  • φειστέον οὖν, ὅπως εὔθυμόν τε καὶ ἀπαρενόχλητον τοῦτον ταῖς πενθικαῖς λύπαις διαγάγωμεν, τὰ τοῦ πένθους παράσημα μεθέμενοι καὶ τῆς τοῦ σώματος ἐπιμελείας φροντίσαντες καὶ τῆς τῶν συμβιούντων ἡμῖν σωτηρίας. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 32 1:1)
  • ἆρ ὑμῖν ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων δοκεῖ μᾶλλον ἀπὸ τούτων ἀρχομένους, λέγω δὲ τῶν οὐκ ἐχόντων τὰς ἐπιγραφάς, τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐπὶ πάντας μεταφέρειν, ἢ σφόδρα εἶναι τῶν τοιούτων φειστέον· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 122:7)

Synonyms

  1. one must spare

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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