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νευστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νευστέος νευστέον

Structure: νευστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/w2의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must swim

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ἡμῖν νευστέον καὶ πειρατέον σῴζεσθαι ἐκ τοῦ λόγου, ἤτοι δελφῖνά τινα ἐλπίζοντασ ἡμᾶσ ὑπολαβεῖν ἂν ἤ τινα ἄλλην ἄπορον σωτηρίαν. (Plato, Republic, book 5 94:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must swim

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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