Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἰστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰστέος οἰστέᾱ οἰστέον

Structure: οἰστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be borne
  2. one must bear
  3. one must get

Examples

  • οἰστέον δὲ τὴν τύχην. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees13)
  • ὅστισ μὲν οὖν ἐσ μίαν ἀποβλέπων τύχην πρὸσ θεῶν κακοῦται, βαρὺ μέν, οἰστέον δ’ ὅμωσ· (Euripides, Helen, episode 1:1)
  • οἰστέον τάδε. (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:10)
  • ἄτοπόν τε πεποίηκ’ εἰ δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ νόμοισ ἐφ’ οἷσπερ ἡμεῖσ ἔσπασασ τὸν ἀέρα τὸν κοινόν, ἵνα σοι καὶ τραγικώτερον λαλῶ, οἰστέον ἄμεινον ταῦτα καὶ λογιστέον. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 5 5:1)
  • Ὠμοτάριχον δέ τινα κέκληκεν Ἄλεξισ ἐν Ἀπεγλαυκωμένῳ, ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ ποιητὴσ ἐν Πονήρᾳ περὶ σκευασίασ ταρίχων μάγειρόν τινα παράγει λέγοντα τάδε ὅμωσ λογίσασθαι πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν βούλομαι καθεζόμενοσ ἐνταῦθα τὴν ὀψωνίαν, ὁμοῦ τε συντάξαι τί πρῶτον οἰστέον ἡδυντέον τε πῶσ ἕκαστὸν ἐστί μοι τάριχοσ πρῶτον ὡραῖον τοδί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 861)

Synonyms

  1. to be borne

  2. one must bear

  3. one must get

Related

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

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