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μελλητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελλητέος μελλητέον

Structure: μελλητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/llw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must delay

Examples

  • βαδιστέον ὁμόσ’ ἐστὶ δειπνήσοντα κοὐ μελλητέον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:36)
  • οὐ μελλητέον. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 16:21)
  • τοῦτ’ οὖν αὔτ’ ἤδη δραστέον, καὶ μελλητέον οὐδὲν ἔτι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 15:3)

Synonyms

  1. one must delay

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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