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ληπ-τέος , α, ον, (λαμβάνω)
A.to be taken or accepted, Pl.Prt.356b.
II. neut. ληπτέον, one must take hold, Ar.Eq.603; ἔργον λ. one must undertake, X.Mem.1.7.2; one must assume in arguing, etc., Pl.Phlb. 61a; one must take or choose, “ἐκ τούτων ἐπιστάτας λ.” X.Cyr.8.1.10; “λ. δὲ . . τίνας ὅρους λέγουσι” Arist.Pol.1280a7.
2. one must take, receive, “ὁμήρους δοτέον καὶ λ.” X.HG3.2.18; one must submit to, “πληγὰς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀμεινόνων” Id.Lac.9.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 603
    • Plato, Philebus, 61a
    • Plato, Protagoras, 356b
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.1.10
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.2.18
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.7.2
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 9.5
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