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πρακτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρακτέος πρακτέᾱ πρακτέον

Structure: πρακτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pra/ssw의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be done
  2. one must do

Examples

  • Μὴ πολυπραγμονῶμεν, ὅτε ἄμεινον ἐκεῖνοσ οἶδε τὰ πρακτέα. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, notus and zephuros, chapter 2 1:2)
  • Ναί, τῇ Κλωθοῖ, ἣ ἑκάστῳ ἐπέταξε γεννηθέντι τὰ πρακτέα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:4)
  • οὐδέτερα γὰρ πρακτέα, ὥστ’ οὐκ αἰσχυντέον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 155:4)
  • οἱ γὰρ πατέρεσ ἡμῶν, ὅθ’ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων καὶ τῶν ἐκ φύσεωσ ἀναγκαίων ἐνομοθέτουν, ἃ τοῖσ ἐλευθέροισ ἡγοῦντο εἶναι πρακτέα, ταῦτα τοῖσ δούλοισ ἀπεῖπον μὴ ποιεῖν. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1381)
  • ἐὰν δὲ τὰ ἡδέα ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνιαρῶν, οὐ πρακτέα. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 386:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be done

  2. one must do

Related

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

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