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χαριστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαριστέος χαριστέον

Structure: χαριστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xari/zomai의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must gratify
  2. one must give freely

Examples

  • ἐγνώκει γὰρ ὁ Οὐίβιοσ ἁπάσῃ φιλοφροσύνῃ θεραπεύειν τὸν Κράσσον, ᾧ γε καί τὸ τῆσ ὡρ́ασ ἐν νῷ λαβεῖν ἐπῆλθεν, ὡσ παντάπασι νεανίασ εἰή καί τι καί ταῖσ καθ’ ἡλικίαν ἡδοναῖσ αὐτοῦ χαριστέον, ἐπεὶ τήν γε χρείαν ἀναγκαίωσ μᾶλλον ἢ προθύμωσ ὑπουργοῦντοσ εἶναι, δύο δὴ θεραπαινίδασ εὐπρεπεῖσ ἀναλαβὼν ἐβάδιζεν ἐπὶ τήν θάλασσαν, ὡσ δ’ ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον, δείξασ τήν ἄνοδον ἐκέλευεν εἴσω πορεύεσθαι καί θαρρεῖν. (Plutarch, chapter 5 2:1)
  • τοῖσίδε γὰρ τῶν ἄλλων μᾶλλον χαριστέον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 145)
  • καὶ τὰσ μὲν εὐεργεσίασ ἀνταποδοτέον ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ χαριστέον ἑταίροισ, ὥσπερ καὶ δάνειον ᾧ ὀφείλει ἀποδοτέον μᾶλλον ἢ ἑταίρῳ δοτέον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 20:1)
  • λέγει γὰρ ὡσ χαριστέον μὴ ἐρῶντι μᾶλλον ἢ ἐρῶντι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 4:6)
  • καὶ τῇ μὲν γαστρὶ χαριστέον, ἐξ ἧσ αἱ πλεῖσται τῶν νόσων, ὅσα δ’ εἰσ λόγουσ ὕθλον ἄλλωσ καὶ σκιὰν ὑποληπτέον, ὦ χρηστοὶ καὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ὑμεῖσ παιδεύοντεσ πρὶν ὑμᾶσ αὐτούσ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. one must gratify

  2. one must give freely

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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