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κακιστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακιστέος κακιστέον

Structure: κακιστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kaki/zw의 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

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

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