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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

  • ἡμεῖσ τά γ’ ἔξω, τῶν ἔσω δ’ ἄλλοισ μέλει, οἳ πλησίον θάσσουσι τρίποδοσ, ὦ ξένε, Δελφῶν ἀριστῆσ, οὓσ ἐκλήρωσεν πάλοσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 5:12)
  • ἴστον δ’ ἀρίστησ σωφρονεστάτησ θ’ ἅμα γεγῶτ’ ἀδελφῆσ ὁμογενοῦσ ἀφ’ αἵματοσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 2:13)
  • ὦ γῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ στρατηλάται Δαναῶν ἀριστῆσ, οἵπερ ἤλθετ’ ἐνθάδε, Κάδμου τε λαόσ, μήτε Πολυνείκουσ χάριν ψυχὰσ ἀπεμπολᾶτε μήθ’ ἡμῶν ὕπερ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 13:21)
  • φίλοι δ’ ἐκόσμουν, τῆσδε μὲν πρόμον χθονὸσ Σπαρτῶν ἀριστῆσ, τὸν δὲ Δαναϊδῶν ἄκροι. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 15:2)
  • ἐμοὶ δ’ οὐ μόνον ἐξ ἱερέων ἐστὶν τὸ γένοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῆσ πρώτησ ἐφημερίδοσ τῶν εἰκοσιτεσσάρων, πολλὴ δὲ κἀν τούτῳ διαφορά, καὶ τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ δὲ φυλῶν ἐκ τῆσ ἀρίστησ. (Flavius Josephus, 3:1)

Related

Similar forms

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

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