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φιλοσοφητέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: philosophēteos

Principal Part: φιλοσοφητέος φιλοσοφητέον

Structure: φιλοσοφητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φιλοσοφέω의 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 δ᾿ ἄλλοι ἀτελεῖς, καὶ οὐκ ἂν πιστεύσαιμι αὐτοῖς, ἔστ᾿ 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, ἀλλ᾿ 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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