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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 αἱ τέχναι τὰσ φύσεισ ἐποίησαν, ἀλλ’ αἱ κράτισται φύσεισ τὰσ βελτίστασ τῶν τεχνῶν εὑρ͂ον, ὥστε καὶ τῇ τάξει καὶ τῇ δυνάμει παρὰ τῇ φύσει τὰ πρεσβεῖα εἶναι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 26:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ὑπερφυὲσ καὶ παντάπασιν ἐναντίον ἐνταῦθα μὲν ὡσ βελτίστασ χώραν αὐτὰσ φάσκειν κεκτῆσθαι, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων γε πάντων ὡσ οὐδενὸσ ἀποδοκιμάζειν ἀξίασ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 78:1)

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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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