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γυμναστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυμναστέος γυμναστέα γυμναστέον

Structure: γυμναστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gumna/zw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must practise

Examples

  • μελετᾶν ἡμῖν δὲ πρῶτον ἐμμελετητέον ἐστὶ τοῖσ φαύλοισ καὶ γυμναστέον περὶ τὰ μικρά, πρὸσ τὸ ἀρνεῖσθαι τοῖσ αἰτοῦσιν οὐ προσηκόντωσ ληψομένοισ· (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 7 7:1)
  • ταύτῃ ἄρα αὐτῷ πρακτέον καὶ γυμναστέον καὶ ἐδεστέον γε καὶ ποτέον, ᾗ ἂν τῷ ἑνὶ δοκῇ, τῷ ἐπιστάτῃ καὶ ἐπαί̈οντι, μᾶλλον ἢ ᾗ σύμπασι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 27:4)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ τῷ σώματι βούλει δυνατὸσ εἶναι, τῇ γνώμῃ ὑπηρετεῖν ἐθιστέον τὸ σῶμα καὶ γυμναστέον σὺν πόνοισ καὶ ἱδρῶτι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 29:2)
  • Πρὸσ τοῦτο μάλιστα τὸ εἶδοσ αὑτὸν γυμναστέον. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 13:7)
  • τούτων δὲ ταύτῃ σχεδὸν ἐχόντων, οὐκ ἐν πολέμῳ τὸν πόλεμον ἑκάστοισ γυμναστέον, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῷ τῆσ εἰρήνησ βίῳ. (Plato, Laws, book 8 7:4)

Synonyms

  1. one must practise

Related

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

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