Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔχθιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔχθιστος ἔχθιστη ἔχθιστον

Structure: ἐχθιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. most hated, most hateful
  2. most hostile, bitterest enemies

Examples

  • ὃ δ’ εἶπον δεινὸν καὶ ἀνέλπιστον τοῦ πολέμου γενέσθαι, τόδε λέγω τὸ εἰσ τοσοῦτον φιλονικίασ ἐλθεῖν πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν τοὺσ ἄλλουσ Ἕλληνασ, ὥστε τολμῆσαι τῷ ἐχθίστῳ ἐπικηρυκεύσασθαι βασιλεῖ, ὃν κοινῇ ἐξέβαλον μεθ’ ἡμῶν, ἰδίᾳ τοῦτον πάλιν ἐπάγεσθαι, βάρβαρον ἐφ’ Ἕλληνασ, καὶ συναθροῖσαι ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν πάντασ Ἕλληνάσ τε καὶ βαρβάρουσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 60:1)
  • καὶ ὕπατοι αὐτοῖσ καθίστανται Κόιντόσ τε Κάτλοσ ἀπὸ τῶν Συλλείων καὶ Λέπιδοσ Αἰμίλιοσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων, ἐχθίστω τε ἀλλήλοιν καὶ εὐθὺσ ἀρξαμένω διαφέρεσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 12 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. most hated

  2. most hostile

Related

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

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