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ἀριστεῖα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριστεῖα ἀριστείας

Structure: ἀριστει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. excellence, prowess

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλουσ οὐκ ἀεὶ τὰ μαρτύρια τῶν ἀριστειῶν περιφέρειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποτίθεσθαι στρεπτὰ καὶ δόρατα καὶ στεφάνουσ, αὐτῷ δὲ τῆσ ἀνδραγαθίασ παραμένειν τὰ γνωρίσματα, τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ ἔχοντι τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἅμα καὶ τῆσ συμφορᾶσ θεατάσ. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 4 2:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἅλισ μὲν εἶχον βλασφημιῶν, ἅλισ δὲ ἐλέγχων, τὸ τελευταῖον ἤδη ὁ Διοκλῆσ ἔφη μηδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν θεμιτὸν εἶναι τῷ Βαγώᾳ μεταποιεῖσθαι φιλοσοφίασ καὶ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῇ ἀριστείων εὐνούχῳ γε ὄντι, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ οὐχ ὅπωσ τούτων ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι ἠξίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἱερῶν αὐτῶν καὶ περιρραντηρίων καὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἁπάντων συλλόγων, δυσοιώνιστόν τι ἀποφαίνων καὶ δυσάντητον θέαμα, εἴ τισ ἑώθεν ἐξιὼν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ ἴδοι τοιοῦτόν τινα. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 6:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ Πλάτων φησὶν τρεῖσ στρατείασ στρατεύσασθαι Σωκράτη, τὴν μὲν εἰσ Ποτίδαιαν, τὴν δὲ εἰσ Ἀμφίπολιν, τὴν δὲ εἰσ Βοιωτοὺσ ὅτε καὶ συνέβη τὴν ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ μάχην γενέσθαι, μηδενὸσ δὲ τοῦθ’ ἱστορηκότοσ αὐτὸσ καὶ ἀριστείων φησὶν αὐτὸν τετυχηκέναι πάντων τῶν Ἀθηναίων φυγόντων, πολλῶν δὲ καὶ ἀπολομένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 552)
  • πότε δὲ καὶ εἰσ Ποτίδαιαν ἐστρατεύσατο, ὡσ ἐν τῷ Χαρμίδῃ εἴρηκεν ὁ Πλάτων φάσκων αὐτὸν καὶ τῶν ἀριστείων τότε Ἀλκιβιάδῃ παραχωρῆσαι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 55 2:3)
  • πῶσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀριστείων Ἀλκιβιάδῃ παραχωρεῖ τῷ μηδ’ ὅλωσ κεκοινωνηκότι ταύτησ τῆσ στρατείασ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 55 4:4)
  • καὶ Ἀντισθένησ δ’ ὁ Σωκρατικὸσ περὶ τῶν ἀριστείων τὰ αὐτὰ τῷ Πλάτωνι ἱστορεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 55 5:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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