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φιλοσοφητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοσοφητέος φιλοσοφητέον

Structure: φιλοσοφητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: filosofe/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must pursue wisdom

Examples

  • καὶ εἴ γέ τισ μέλλει σύμβουλόσ μοι ἀξιόπιστοσ ἔσεσθαι φιλοσοφίασ πέρι, ἥντινα φιλοσοφητέον, οὗτοσ ἂν εἰή μόνοσ ὁ τὰ ὑπὸ πασῶν αὐτῶν λεγόμενα εἰδώσ, οἱ δ̓ ἄλλοι ἀτελεῖσ, καὶ οὐκ ἂν πιστεύσαιμι αὐτοῖσ, ἔστ̓ ἂν καὶ μιᾶσ ἀπείρατοι ὦσι· (Lucian, 94:1)
  • Οὐκοῦν τοῦτο, ὦ Λυκῖνε, φήσ, ὡσ οὐ φιλοσοφητέον ἡμῖν, ἀλλὰ χρὴ ἀργίᾳ παραδιδόντασ αὑτοὺσ ἰδιώτασ καταβιῶναι; (Lucian, 106:1)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχ ὡσ οὐ φιλοσοφητέον φημί, ἀλλ̓ ἐπείπερ φιλοσοφητέον ὁδοί τε πολλαί εἰσιν ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν ἑκάστη καὶ ἀρετὴν ἄγειν φάσκουσαι, ἡ δὲ ἀληθὴσ ἐν αὐταῖσ ἄδηλοσ, ἀκριβῆ ποιήσασθαι τὴν διαίρεσιν. (Lucian, 107:2)
  • κἀμοὶ δὲ διὰ τοῦτο φαίνεται φιλοσοφητέον εἶναι περὶ μουσικῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 321)

Synonyms

  1. one must pursue wisdom

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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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