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ὑπεικτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεικτέος ὑπεικτέον

Structure: ὑπεικτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(pei/kw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must yield

Examples

  • ἄρχοντέσ εἰσιν, ὥσθ’ ὑπεικτέον. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode11)
  • καὶ ἐν μείζονι μοίρᾳ καὶ παρὰ θεοῖσ καὶ παρ’ ἀνθρώποισ τοῖσ νοῦν ἔχουσι, καὶ σέβεσθαι δεῖ καὶ μᾶλλον ὑπείκειν καὶ θωπεύειν πατρίδα χαλεπαίνουσαν ἢ πατέρα, καὶ ἢ πείθειν ἢ ποιεῖν ἃ ἂν κελεύῃ, καὶ πάσχειν ἐάν τι προστάττῃ παθεῖν ἡσυχίαν ἄγοντα, ἐάντε τύπτεσθαι ἐάντε δεῖσθαι, ἐάντε εἰσ πόλεμον ἄγῃ τρωθησόμενον ἢ ἀποθανούμενον, ποιητέον ταῦτα, καὶ τὸ δίκαιον οὕτωσ ἔχει, καὶ οὐχὶ ὑπεικτέον οὐδὲ ἀναχωρητέον οὐδὲ λειπτέον τὴν τάξιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ ἐν δικαστηρίῳ καὶ πανταχοῦ ποιητέον ἃ ἂν κελεύῃ ἡ πόλισ καὶ ἡ πατρίσ, ἢ πείθειν αὐτὴν ᾗ τὸ δίκαιον πέφυκε· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 51:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must yield

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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