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πειστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πειστέος πειστέον

Structure: πειστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei/qw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must persuade
  2. one must obey

Examples

  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο ὡσ νομοθέτῃ πειστέον σοι, καὶ ἀντερῶ ἢν τί μοι δοκῇ μὴ ὀρθῶσ λέγεσθαι, ὡσ βεβαιότερον μάθοιμι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 18:3)
  • τοῖσ γὰρ νόμοισ τοῖσ ἡμετέροισι πειστέον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 2:10)
  • ἐξαπατώμεθα νὴ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, νὴ Δί’, οὐχὶ πειστέον· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 2:13)
  • ἀλλ’ εὖ γὰρ εἶπασ, πειστέον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:15)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀλλὰ πειστέον· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene36)

Synonyms

  1. one must persuade

  2. one must obey

Related

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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