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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

  • οὐκ ἄγαμαι ταῦτ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἀριστέωσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests19)
  • ἀκολούθωσ τοίνυν ὁ πολιτικὸσ νόμοσ περὶ τ’ ἀριστέωσ καὶ λιποτάκτου διαλέγεται καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὡσαύτωσ· (Plutarch, De fato, section 4 2:2)
  • ὅτι δὲ τοῖσ πλείστοισ οὐκ ἐπράχθη κατὰ γνώμην, ἐδήλωσαν αὐτίκα συνδραμόντεσ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων ἐπὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ θάψαντεσ ἐντίμωσ καὶ τὸν τάφον ὅπλοισ καὶ λαφύροισ κοσμήσαντεσ ὡσ ἀριστέωσ καὶ στρατηγοῦ. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 39 5:1)
  • Ἀριστεὺσ δὲ Ἀργεῖοσ δολίχου μὲν νίκην ἔσχεν αὐτόσ, πάλησ δὲ ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Ἀριστέωσ Χείμων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 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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