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ἐκλεκτ-ικός

eklektikos

capable of exercising moral choice

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Where it lives

Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἐκλεκτ-ικός · eklekt-ikos — LSJ

capable of exercising moral choice

capable of exercising moral choice, Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.46.

2 deserving such choice

ἐ. ἀξία value deserving such choice, Antip. ib. 30, al.

II picking out, selective, the Eclectics, who selected such doctrines as pleased them

picking out, selective, δυνάμεις D.H. Comp. 2 fin.; οἱ ἐ. the Eclectics, philosophers who selected such doctrines as pleased them in every school, Gal. 14.684; ἐ. αἵρεσις D.L. Prooem. 21, Gal. 19.353.

III

Adv. -κῶς Hierocl. p.41A.

In the wild

ἐκλεκτική · eklektikē Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.prologue (DIORISIS sentence 140)
ἐκλεκτικόν · eklektikon Epictetus, Discourses 2.6 (DIORISIS sentence 2113)

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