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βέλτιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βέλτιστος βέλτιστη βέλτιστον

Structure: βελτιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. be/lteros.

Sense

  1. best, my good friend, the best, what is best, the aristocracy

Examples

  • ἐὰν δὲ καταβοσκήσῃ τισ ἀγρὸν ἢ ἀμπελῶνα καὶ ἀφῇ τὸ κτῆνοσ αὐτοῦ καταβοσκῆσαι ἀγρὸν ἕτερον, ἀποτίσει ἐκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὸ γέννημα αὐτοῦ. ἐὰν δὲ πάντα τὸν ἀγρὸν καταβοσκήσῃ, τὰ βέλτιστα τοῦ ἀγροῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ βέλτιστα τοῦ ἀμπελῶνοσ αὐτοῦ ἀποτίσει. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:5)
  • γένη δὲ ἂν εἰή πρὸσ τὰ ἔργα βέλτιστα μήτε δειλὰ μήτε ἀνδρῖα ἄγαν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 30:1)
  • φησὶν δ’ ὑμᾶσ πολλὰ διδάξειν ἀγάθ’, ὥστ’ εὐδαίμονασ εἶναι, οὐ θωπεύων οὐδ’ ὑποτείνων μισθοὺσ οὐδ’ ἐξαπατύλλων, οὐδὲ πανουργῶν οὐδὲ κατάρδων, ἀλλὰ τὰ βέλτιστα διδάσκων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, parabasis15)
  • καὶ τὴν δρῶσαν τήν <τ’> ἀγορεύουσαν τὰ βέλτιστα περὶ τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων καὶ τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν ταύτην νικᾶν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, prologue3)

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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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