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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

  • "καὶ τοῖσ θεοῖσ ὁ Ζεύσ, ὥσπερ τοῖσ ἀριστεῦσιν ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων, μετρητὸν ἐνέχει τὸ ποτόν, ὅτε προύπινον ἀλλήλοισ ἑστιώμενοι παρ’ αὐτῷ; (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 13 11:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ Φινείδασ λέγεται τὴν βασιλείαν παραδόντασ τῇ μητρὶ Κλεοπάτρᾳ συστρατεῦσαι τοῖσ ἀριστεῦσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 44 6:2)
  • τοιαύτησ δ’ οὔσησ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἀπορίασ, λέγεται τὴν Μήδειαν ἐπαγγείλασθαι δἰ ἑαυτῆσ τόν τε Πελίαν ἀποκτενεῖν δόλῳ καὶ τὰ βασίλεια παραδώσειν τοῖσ ἀριστεῦσιν ἀκινδύνωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 50 5:1)

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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