Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "γ’ ἕνεκα πάσαισ γυναιξὶν ἂν ἐραστήν, ὅτι τῆσ γυναικὸσ ὁ πλοῦτόσ ἐστι φυλακτέοσ τῷ νεανίσκῳ, μὴ συμμίξαντεσ αὐτὸν ὄγκῳ καὶ βάρει τοσούτῳ λάθωμεν ὥσπερ ἐν χαλκῷ κασσίτερον ἀφανίσαντεσ μέγα γὰρ ἂν ἐλαφρᾷ καὶ λιτῇ γυναικὶ μειρακίου συνελθὸντοσ εἰσ ταὐτὸν ἡ κρᾶσισ οἴνου δίκην ἐπικρατήσῃ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 72)
  • ὡσ μέγασ φόβοσ φυλακτέοσ, καὶ χαρᾶσ δεινότησ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, PARAGGELIAI, xiv.2)
  • Τῶν δὲ τὸν νόμον καὶ τὸ πάτριον ἔθοσ προτεινομένων καὶ ὡσ οὐδὲ θεοῦ τι δείκηλον, οὐχ ὅπωσ ἀνδρόσ, οὐ κατὰ τὸν ναὸν μόνον ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐν εἰκαίῳ τινὶ τόπῳ τῆσ χώρασ θέσθαι θεμιτὸν εἰή, ὑπολαβὼν ὁ Πετρώνιοσ "ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἐμοὶ φυλακτέοσ ὁ τοὐμοῦ δεσπότου νόμοσ" , ἔφη· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 256:1)

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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