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κριτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κριτέος κριτέᾱ κριτέον

Structure: κριτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kri/nw의 분사형,

Sense

  1. to be decided or judged, one must decide or judge

Examples

  • ἔπειτα γυμνοὺσ κριτέον ἁπάντων τούτων· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 36 11:8)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ὁ μὲν κατηγορῶν διὰ εἰκότων ἀποδείκνυσιν, ἔστι δὲ οὐ ταὐτὸ λῦσαι ἢ ὅτι οὐκ εἰκὸσ ἢ ὅτι οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον, ἀεὶ δ’ ἔχει ἔνστασιν τὸ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ οὐ γὰρ ἂν ᾖ ἅμ’ ἀεὶ εἰκόσ, ἀεὶ καὶ ἀναγκαῖον, ὁ δὲ κριτὴσ οἰέται, ἂν οὕτω λυθῇ, ἢ οὐκ εἰκὸσ εἶναι ἢ οὐχ αὑτῷ κριτέον, παραλογιζόμενοσ, ὥσπερ ἐλέγομεν οὐ γὰρ ἐκ τῶν ἀναγκαίων δεῖ αὐτὸν μόνον κρίνειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 25 10:2)
  • ἔπειτα γυμνοὺσ κριτέον ἁπάντων τούτων· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 466:6)

Synonyms

  1. to be decided or judged

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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