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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐνῆν, οὐκ ἐνῆν αὐθημερὸν ἄνδρασ γενέσθαι κοσμίουσ καὶ ἀνδρείουσ καὶ τῶν δεινῶν κρείττονασ, ἐν ῥαθυμίᾳ τραφέντασ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ καὶ φαύλωσ ἐν τοῖσ ὅλοισ ἠγμένουσ, ἀλλ’ ἔδει καὶ τροφῇ χρηστῇ καὶ λόγοισ ἐπιεικέσι καὶ ἔθεσι μετρίοισ καὶ δόξαισ ταῖσ βελτίσταισ πόρρωθεν κατειλῆφθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 47:7)

Related

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

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