Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φίλτατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλτατος φίλτατη φίλτατον

Structure: φιλτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: irreg. Sup. of fi/los, Hom., Trag.

Sense

Examples

  • καὶ ἐν ταῖσ πρὸσ τοὺσ φιλτάτουσ μάλιστα ὑγιαίνειν εὐθὺσ ἐν ἀρχῇ προστάττει; (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 14:2)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, ὑφορᾶσθαι δεῖ μάλιστα τοὺσ φιλτάτουσ κἀξ ἐκείνων ἀεί τι δεινὸν ἐλπίζειν ἥξειν. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:10)
  • ἀνταποκτενῶ γὰρ ὑμῶν τῶν φίλων τοὺσ φιλτάτουσ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees22)
  • ὁρᾶτε δ’ ὡσ τρεῖσ μία τύχη τοὺσ φιλτάτουσ, ἢ γῆσ πατρῴασ νόστον ἢ θανεῖν ἔχει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 6:6)
  • τοὺσ φιλτάτουσ γὰρ οἶδα νῷν ὄντασ πικρούσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 11:6)

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

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