A.best, most excellent, “β. ἀνὴρ γενενῆσθαι περὶ τὸν δῆμον” Ar.Eq. 765; ὦ βέλτιστε or β., a common mode of address, my dear friend, Id.Pl.1172, Antiph.289, Pl.R.337e, etc.; “ὦ βέλτιστε σύ” Eub.106; “ὦ β. ἀνδρῶν” Pl.Grg.515a; “ὦ ἄριστε καὶ β.” Id.Lg.902a; “βέντισθ᾽ οὗτος” Theoc.5.76; “ὑπὲρ τὸ β.” A.Ag.378; οἱ β. or τὸ β. the aristocracy, X. HG5.2.6, Cyr.8.1.16, Ath.1.5, etc.; τὸ β., in Philos., the highest good, Pl.Phd.99a, 99b, Epict.Ench.51, etc.; “τὰ β. βουλεύειν” Th.4.68; “οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ β. ἀναστρέφεσθαι” SIG593.7(ii B. C.), PTeb.282.8 (ii A. D.). Adv. “βέλτιστα” X.Oec.7.29, etc.; “βελτίστως” Simp. in Cael.419.25.
βέλτ-ιστος , η, ον, Dor. βέντ- , Sup. of ἀγαθός,
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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