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φυλακτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυλακτέος φυλακτέᾱ φυλακτέον

Structure: φυλακτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fula/ssw의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be watched or kept
  2. one must observe, obey
  3. one must guard against

Examples

  • τοῖσ δὲ τοῦτο μὲν δωρεὰν ἢ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἢ παρ’ ἄλλων τινῶν λαβοῦσιν, τῇ τύχῃ δ’ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἀπὸ τοῦ χρηματίσασθαι καὶ ἑτέρων πλείω κτήσασθαι καὶ αὐτῶν τούτων ἀξιωθεῖσιν, ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν φυλακτέα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 47:3)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰ τὸ θάκημ’ ἐξαναγκάζει, σκόπει μή σοι πρόνοι’ ᾖ τοῦ θεοῦ φυλακτέα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:35)
  • ὦ βασιλεῦ, τὴν μὲν πόλιν αἱρήσεισ, αὐτῷ δέ σοι φυλακτέα ἐστὶν ἐπὶ τῇδε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 26 4:5)
  • οὗ ἕνεκα ἥ τε σιωπὴ ἀσκητέα καὶ ἡ τάξισ φυλακτέα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 51:4)

Synonyms

  1. one must observe

  2. one must guard against

Related

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

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