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τρεπτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρεπτέος τρεπτέον

Structure: τρεπτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must turn

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δ’ οὖν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀφικόμενοσ εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι ἀπορήσεισ, καὶ ἤδη ἀπορεῖσ, ποτέραν τρεπτέον. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 8:6)
  • νῦν οὖν ἀνύσαντε φροντίσωμεν ὦγαθέ, ποίαν ὁδὸν νὼ τρεπτέον καὶ πρὸσ τίνα. (Aristotle, Prologue 2:19)
  • πρῶτον τρεπτέον ἐπὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μέλλοντί γε κατοικίζειν χώραν. (Plato, Laws, book 5 151:3)
  • , ὡσ δηλοῦσί μοι οἱ σοφοί, καὶ τὰν ἀλάθειαν βιᾶται καὶ κύριον εὐδαιμονίασ, ἐπὶ τοῦτο δὴ τρεπτέον ὅλωσ· (Plato, Republic, book 2 78:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must turn

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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