The corpus record

οἰστέος

oisteos

to be borne

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Where it lives

Plataicus 1 · 3.14/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k

What it meant

οἰστέος · oisteos — LSJ

to be borne

to be borne, S. OC 1360.

II one must bear

οἰστέον one must bear, E. Or. 769 ; βαρὺ μέν, οἰστέον δʼ ὅμως Id. Hel. 268, cf. Men. 531.9.

2 one must get

one must get, κέρδος S. Ant. 310.

3 one must pay

one must pay, φόρον Isoc. 14.10.

In the wild

οἰστέαι · oisteai Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
οἰστέον · oisteon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
οἰστέον · oisteon Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh (DIORISIS sentence 160)
οἰστέον · oisteon Euripides, Ion 1260 (DIORISIS sentence 802)
οἰστέον · oisteon Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 534)
οἰστέον · oisteon Isocrates, Plataicus 10 (DIORISIS sentence 23)

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Where it came from

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