The corpus record

βᾰσᾰν-ιστέος

basanisteos

to be proved

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Where it lives

Republic 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be proved, tested under suffering

to be proved or tested under suffering, Ar. Lys. 478, Pl. R. 540a.

II one must put to the test, prove, one must put to the torture

βασανιστέον one must put to the test, prove, τινά ib. 503d, Max.Tyr. 24.4, Gal. 17(1).337, Jul. Or. 7.226a, Them. Or. 23.287c; one must put to the torture, D. 29.35.

In the wild

βασανιστέον · basanisteon Plato, Republic 6.503 (DIORISIS sentence 3974)
βασανιστέοι · basanisteoi Plato, Republic 7.540 (DIORISIS sentence 4707)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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