ἐκλεκτικός
καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος → Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A capable of exercising moral choice, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.46. 2 ἐ. ἀξία value deserving such choice, Antip.ib.30,al. II 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.
German (Pape)
[Seite 767] ή, όν, auswählend, auslesend, D. Hal. C. V. 2; οἱ ἐκλεκτικοί, die Eklektiker, Philosophen, welche aus verschiedenen anderen Sekten einzelne Lehrsätze auswählten u. annahmen, D. L. prooem. 21 u. a. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐκλεκτικός: -ή, -όν, ὁ ἔχων τάσιν πρὸς τὸ ἐκλέγειν, ὁ ἐκλέγων, Δον. Ἁλ. περὶ Συνθ. 2, ἐν τέλει: - οἱ Ἐκλεκτικοί, φιλόσοφοι, οἵτινες ἐξ ἑκάστης φιλοσοφικῆς αἱρέσεως ἐξέλεγον καὶ παρελάμβανον ὅσα δόγματα ἐνόμιζον ὡς ὀρθά, ἴδε Διογ. Λ. προίμ. 21.