μηχᾰν-ητέον · mēchan-ēteon — LSJ
one must contrive
one must contrive, μ. ὅπως ἄν . . Pl. Grg. 481a, cf. Lg. 798e, X. Eq.Mag. 5.11.
The corpus record
μηχᾰν-ητέον
mechaneteon
one must contrive
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Where it lives
- On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μηχανητέον · mēchanēteon Plato, Gorgias 481
- μηχανητέον · mēchanēteon Plato, Laws 798
- μηχανητέον · mēchanēteon Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander 5.11 (DIORISIS sentence 177)
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.