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πλεονεκτητέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: pleonektēteos

Principal Part: πλεονεκτητέος πλεονεκτητέον

Structure: πλεονεκτητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πλεονεκτέω의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must take more than one's share

Examples

  • ἦ οὖν τούτων τῶν σιτίων πλέον ἡμῶν ἑκτέον αὐτῷ, ὅτι βελτίων ἐστίν, ἢ τῷ μὲν ἄρχειν πάντα ἐκεῖνον δεῖ νέμειν, ἐν τῷ δὲ ἀναλίσκειν τε αὐτὰ καὶ καταχρῆσθαι εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σῶμα οὐ πλεονεκτητέον, εἰ μὴ μέλλει ζημιοῦσθαι, ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν πλέον, τῶν δ ἔλαττον ἑκτέον: (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 264:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must take more than one's share

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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