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ποτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτέος ποτέᾱ ποτέον

Structure: ποτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nw의 분사형

Sense

  1. drinkable.
  2. one must drink

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ἡλιωθέντεσ καὶ ῥιγώσαντεσ πάλιν καὶ σφοδρότερον εἰπόντεσ καὶ συντονώτερον φροντίσαντεσ καὶ ὅλωσ μετὰ τοὺσ κόπουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἀγῶνασ οἰόνται ποτέον εἶναι τὸν οἶνον ὡσ καὶ τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀπαιτούσησ εὐπάθειάν τινα τῷ σώματι καὶ μεταβολὴν ἐκ τῶν πόνων. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 6:1)
  • ταύτῃ ἄρα αὐτῷ πρακτέον καὶ γυμναστέον καὶ ἐδεστέον γε καὶ ποτέον, ᾗ ἂν τῷ ἑνὶ δοκῇ, τῷ ἐπιστάτῃ καὶ ἐπαί̈οντι, μᾶλλον ἢ ᾗ σύμπασι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 27:4)
  • οὐκ ἐπιτρεπτέον οὖν ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ ποτέον· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 449:4)
  • σιτία μὲν γὰρ καὶ ποτὰ πριάμενον παρὰ τοῦ καπήλου καὶ ἐμπόρου ἔξεστιν ἐν ἄλλοισ ἀγγείοισ ἀποφέρειν, καὶ πρὶν δέξασθαι αὐτὰ εἰσ τὸ σῶμα πιόντα ἢ φαγόντα, καταθέμενον οἴκαδε ἔξεστιν συμβουλεύσασθαι, παρακαλέσαντα τὸν ἐπαί̈οντα, ὅτι τε ἐδεστέον ἢ ποτέον καὶ ὅτι μή, καὶ ὁπόσον καὶ ὁπότε· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. drinkable

  2. one must drink

Related

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

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