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στοχαστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: στοχαστέος στοχαστέον

Structure: στοχαστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stoxa/zomai의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must aim at

Examples

  • δῆλον οὖν ὡσ οὐχ ἱκανὸν τὸ τὰσ οὐσίασ ἴσασ ποιῆσαι τὸν νομοθέτην, ἀλλὰ τοῦ μέσου στοχαστέον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 140:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐπὶ πάσησ ὕλησ καὶ περιστάσεωσ βουλόμεθα τηρῆσαι τὸ κατὰ φύσιν, δῆλον ὅτι ἐν παντὶ στοχαστέον τοῦ μήτε τὸ ἀκόλουθον ἡμᾶσ ἐκφυγεῖν μήτε παραδέξασθαι τὸ μαχόμενον. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must aim at

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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