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ὀλίγιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλίγιστος ὀλίγιστη ὀλίγιστον

Structure: ὀλιγιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: irreg. Sup. of o)li/gos

Sense

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ τὰσ γινομένασ δημοσίασ δίκασ ὡσ ὀλιγίστασ αἰεὶ ποιεῖν, μεγάλοισ ἐπιτιμίοισ τοὺσ εἰκῇ γραφομένουσ κωλύοντασ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 78:1)
  • ταῦτ’ οὖν δὴ πάντα, τὸ μὲν ἔχον ὀλιγίστασ βάσεισ εὐκινητότατον ἀνάγκη πεφυκέναι, τμητικώτατόν τε καὶ ὀξύτατον ὂν πάντῃ πάντων, ἔτι τε ἐλαφρότατον, ἐξ ὀλιγίστων συνεστὸσ τῶν αὐτῶν μερῶν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 246:3)

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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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