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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

  • ἑλοῦ τοίνυν θάτερον ἢ μισεῖσθαι ἀριστεὺσ εἶναι δοκῶν ἢ καθεύδειν μετὰ Ὑμνίδοσ ἐψεῦσθαι ὁμολογῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 6:5)
  • "ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ἐπικούρου λόγων καὶ δογμάτων οὐ λέγω τίσ τυραννοκτόνοσ ἢ τίσ ἀριστεὺσ ἢ τίσ νομοθέτησ ἢ τίσ ἄρχων ἢ βασιλέωσ σύμβουλοσ ἢ δήμου προστάτησ ἢ βεβασανισμένοσ ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων ἢ τεθνηκώσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 331)
  • Τενάγων τ’ ἀριστεὺσ Βακτρίων ἰθαιγενὴσ θαλασσόπληκτον νῆσον Αἰάντοσ πολεῖ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode10)
  • ἀλλὰ διὰ στέρνων ἴθι φάσγανον ὡσ γὰρ ἀριστεὺσ θνῄξομ’ ἀπωσάμενοσ καὶ νόσον ὡσ πόλεμον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3542)
  • μετὰ τούτουσ ἱερεύσ τισ Ἀνανίασ υἱὸσ Μασβάλου τῶν ἐπισήμων καὶ ὁ γραμματεὺσ τῆσ βουλῆσ Ἀριστεύσ, γένοσ ἐξ Ἀμμαοῦσ, καὶ σὺν τούτοισ πεντεκαίδεκα τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου λαμπρῶν ἀναιροῦνται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 604:1)

Related

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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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