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κακιστέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: kakisteos

Principal Part: κακιστέος κακιστέον

Structure: κακιστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: κακίζω의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must bring reproach on

Examples

  • φεύγειν μὲν οὐκ ἀνεκτὸν οὐδ εἰώθαμεν, τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ χρησμὸν οὐ κακιστέον: (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:9)
  • οὐκοῦν εἰ ὅτι μάλιστα ἕτερος μὲν ἐν τοῖς πᾶσι μήτ Ἀθήνησι μήτ ἄλλοθι μηδαμοῦ ῥήτωρ ἐλλόγιμος, μηδ ἔξω τῆς τοῦ κολακεύειν αἰτίας, γεγένηται δὲ εἷς Ἀθήνησι, τί μᾶλλον τό γε πρᾶγμα κακιστέον ὡς ἀναγκαίως φαῦλον· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 86:13)

Synonyms

  1. one must bring reproach on

Similar forms

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

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