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ἀριστεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: aristeus

Principal Part: ἀριστεύς

Structure: ἀριστευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἄριστος

Sense

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

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀριστεύς ἀριστή ἀριστής
Genitive ἀριστέως ἀριστέοιν ἀριστέων
Dative ἀριστεί ἀριστέοιν ἀριστεῦσι(ν)
Accusative ἀριστέα ἀριστή ἀριστέας
Vocative ἀριστεύ ἀριστή ἀριστής

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)

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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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