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πλεονεκτητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεονεκτητέος πλεονεκτητέον

Structure: πλεονεκτητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pleonekte/w의 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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