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τολμητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τολμητέος τολμητέον

Structure: τολμητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tolma/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must venture

Examples

  • χαλεπὸν μὲν ἐπιτάττεισ τὸ , ἐπίταγμα καὶ οὐ πάντῃ εὐσεβέσ πλὴν ἀλλὰ σοῦ γε ἕνεκα τολμητέον. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 2:11)
  • ὅταν δὲ νυκτὸσ ὄμμα λυγαίασ μόλῃ, τολμητέον τοι ξεστὸν ἐκ ναοῦ λαβεῖν ἄγαλμα πάσασ προσφέροντε μηχανάσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:11)
  • τολμητέον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:18)
  • ἀνοικτέον τάδ’ ἐστὶ καὶ τολμητέον· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 3:12)
  • χαλεπὸν μὲν οὖν πρὸσ ἄνδρα οὐχ ἥττονα ἐραστῶν προσφέρεσθαι ἐραστῇ, ὅμωσ δὲ τολμητέον φράσαι τὴν ἐμὴν διάνοιαν. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 9:6)

Synonyms

  1. one must venture

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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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