Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἄριστος

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1. best in birth and rank, noblest: hence, like ἀριστεύς, a chief, “Ἀργείων οἱ ἄριστοι” Il.4.260, cf. 6.209; “ἄ. ἔην πολὺ δὲ πλείστους ἄγε λαούς” 2.580; “θεῶν ὕπατος καὶ ἄ.” 19.258; “πατρὸς πάντων ἀ. παῖδα” S.El.366; ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀ. ὁμιλίη, opp. δῆμος, Hdt.3.81, cf. Cic.Att.9.4.2.

2. best in any way, bravest, “ἀνδρῶν αὖ μέγ᾽ ἄ. ἔην Τελαμώνιος Αἴας” Il.2.768, cf. 7.50, etc.; οἰωνοπόλων, σκυτοτόμων ὄχ᾽ ἄ., 6.76, 7.221.

b. c. dat. modi, “βουλῇ μετὰ πάντας . . ἔπλευ ἄ.” 9.54, al.; “ἔγχεσιν εἶναι ἀρίστους” Od.4.211.

c. c. acc. rei, “εἶδος ἄριστε” Il.3.39; “ψυχὴν ἄ.” Ar.Nu.1048.

d. c. inf., “ἄριστοι μάχεσθαι” X.Cyr.5.4.44; ἄ. διαβολὰς ἐνδέκεσθαι readiest to give ear to calumnies, Hdt.3.80; ἄ. ἀπατᾶσθαι best, i.e. easiest, to cheat, Th.3.38.

3. morally best, “εἴς τινα” E.Alc.83(lyr.); “οἱ ἄ. ἁπλῶς κατ᾽ ἀρετήν” Arist.Pol.1293b3.

4. best, most useful, “πόλει” E.Fr.194 codd. (leg. ἀρεστός）“ αὑτῷ” Id.Heracl.5.

II. of animals, things, etc., best, finest, “ἵπποι” Il.2.763; μήλων, ὑῶν, Od.9.432, 14.414; “τεύχε᾽ ἄριστα” Il.15.616; “χῶρος” Od.5.442; “ποταμῶν ἄ. τά τε ἄλλα καὶ ἀκέσασθαι” Hdt.4.90; ἄριστα φέρεσθαι win an excellent reward, S.El.1097 (lyr.).

III. neut. pl. as Adv., ἄριστα best, most excellently, “ὄχ᾽ ἄ.” Il.3.110, Od.13.365, cf. Hdt.1.193, al., etc.; ἄριστά γε, in answers, well said! Pl.Tht.163c: later also “ἀρίστως” Iamb.Myst.3.14.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (32):
- Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.4.2
- Euripides, Alcestis, 83
- Euripides, Heraclidae, 5
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.193
- Herodotus, Histories, 3.80
- Herodotus, Histories, 3.81
- Herodotus, Histories, 4.90
- Homer, Iliad, 11.288
- Homer, Iliad, 15.616
- Homer, Iliad, 19.258
- Homer, Iliad, 2.580
- Homer, Iliad, 2.763
- Homer, Iliad, 2.768
- Homer, Iliad, 3.110
- Homer, Iliad, 3.39
- Homer, Iliad, 4.260
- Homer, Iliad, 6.209
- Homer, Iliad, 6.76
- Homer, Iliad, 7.221
- Homer, Iliad, 7.50
- Homer, Odyssey, 13.365
- Homer, Odyssey, 14.414
- Homer, Odyssey, 4.211
- Homer, Odyssey, 5.442
- Homer, Odyssey, 9.432
- Plato, Theaetetus, 163c
- Sophocles, Electra, 1097
- Sophocles, Electra, 366
- Thucydides, Histories, 3.38
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.4.44
- Homer, Iliad, 9.54
- Aristophanes, Clouds, 1048

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