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ἀριστεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριστεύς

Structure: ἀριστευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/ristos

Sense

  1. the best man, the best or noblest, chiefs, princes

Declension

Third 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

  • "αὕτη ἡ Φαρσαλία ἐν Μεταποντίῳ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ μάντεων, γενομένησ φωνῆσ ἐκ τῆσ δάφνησ τῆσ χαλκῆσ ἣν ἔστησαν Μεταποντῖνοι κατὰ τὴν Ἀριστέα τοῦ Προκονησίου ἐπιδημίαν, ὅτ’ ἔφησεν ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων παραγεγονέναι, ὡσ τάχιστα ὤφθη εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐμβαλοῦσα, ἐμμανῶν γενομένων τῶν μάντεων διεσπάσθη ὑπ’ αὐτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 83 2:5)
  • οὔτε γὰρ τελευτήσαντι τοιαύτην εἰκὸσ ἦν ἀνδρὶ δειλῷ καὶ προδότῃ γενέσθαι τιμήν, οὔτ’ ἂν ἐτόλμησε τῶν θυγατέρων ὄνομα θέσθαι τῇ μὲν Ναυσινίκην τῇ δ’ Ἀκροθίνιον τῇ δ’ Ἀλεξιβίαν, Ἀριστέα δὲ καλέσαι τὸν υἱόν, εἰ μή τισ ἦν ἐπιφάνεια καὶ λαμπρότησ περὶ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων ἐκείνων. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 39 16:1)
  • σὴν τροχαλὴν μάστιγα καὶ ἀσπίδα δῆμοσ ἀγασθεὶσ ἤθελέ σε στῆσαι διπλόον, ὥσπερ ἔδει, ἡνίοχον κρατερὸν καὶ ἀριστέα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3471)
  • καίτοι οὔτε στρατηγὸν εὑρ́οι τισ ἂν ἐν παντὶ τῷ χρόνῳ ἀήττητον οὔτε ἀριστέα πολεμικόν, ὃσ οὐκ ἤδη ποτὲ καὶ ἔφυγεν ἐκ μάχησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 18:1)
  • καὶ οἱ μάντεισ, οἵ τε ἀπὸ τῶν ἄστρων τεκμαιρόμενοι τὸ μέλλον οἵ τε ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνειράτων, ὥσ γε Χαλδαίων παῖδεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Πύθιοσ αὐτὸσ ἄρτι μὲν Ἀριστέᾳ παρεῖχε τὸ κράτοσ, ἄρτι δὲ Μοιρίχῳ, καὶ τὰ τάλαντα ποτὲ μὲν ἐπ̓ ἐκεῖνον, νῦν δ̓ ἐπὶ τοῦτον ἔρρεπε. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 2:3)
  • λέγειν δέ τινασ εὐθὺσ ἐξ ἀποδημίασ ἥκοντασ ἐντυχεῖν Ἀριστέᾳ τὴν ἐπὶ Κρότωνοσ πορευομένῳ. (Plutarch, chapter 28 4:3)

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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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