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

A.“λῴω” S.Ph.1079, Pl.Phlb.11b; acc. pl. “λῴους” S.Tr.736: also an o-stem λώϊος (Hdn.Gr.1.122, Thgn.800) from which come neut. pl. “λώϊα” Thgn.853, Theoc.26.32, and λῷα prob. in Thgn.96: gen. pl. “τῶν λῴων” IG12(9).1179.36 (Chalcis, ii A.D.):— more desirable, more agreeable, better, Hom. only in neut., πολὺ λώϊόν ἐστι, τόδε λ. ἐστι, Il.1.229, Od.2.169, al.; “τῷ σε χρὴ δόμεναι καὶ λώϊον ἠέ περ ἄλλοι σίτου” 17.417: as Adv., “γνωσόμεθ᾽ ἀλλήλων καὶ λώϊον” 23.109; “μετρεῖσθαι” Hes.Op.350; but “οὐκ . . ἄλλη τῆσδε λωΐων γυνή” Semon. 7.30: also Comp. λωΐτερος, α, ον, also used by Hom. only in neut., “λωΐτερον καὶ ἄμεινον” Od.1.376, 2.141: masc. in A.R.3.850, etc.: fem. in Call.Aet.4.1.7, AP5.111.6 (Phld.).—In Trag. λῴων was used generally as Comp. of ἀγαθός, A.Pers.526, etc.; “φρόνησιν λαβεῖν λῴω” S. Ph.1079; “λῷον φρονεῖ” Id.OT1038; “λῴους φρένας ἀμείψασθαι” Id.Tr. 736; “βίου λῴονος κυρῆσαι” Id.OT1513; “εἰς τὸ λῷον σὸν μεθέστηκεν κέαρ” E.Med.911: sts. also in Prose, “ἄμεινον καὶ λῷον” Pl.Lg.828a; “ἀμείνω καὶ λῴω” Id.Phlb.11b; “λ. καὶ ἄμεινον” X.An.6.2.15, SIG398.41 (Cos, iii B.C.), 1044.4 (Halic., iv/iii B.C.), cf. Berl.Sitzb.1927.165 (Cyrene), etc.

II. Sup. λῷστος , η, ον, Thgn.255; “λῷστον δὲ τὸ ζῆν ἄνοσον” S.Fr.356; “τὰ λῷστα βουλεύων” A.Pr.206, etc.; παραινέσαι τὰ λ. ib. 310; “τὰ λ. λέγειν” Id.Ag.1053, cf. Cratin.4 D.; ὦ λῷστε Πῶλε my good friend, like ὦ βέλτιστε, Pl.Grg.467b, cf. X.Smp.4.1, etc.