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ἐλα?́χιστ-ος [α^], η, ον, Sup. of ἐλαχύς: Comp. ἐλάσσων (q.v.):—
A.smallest, least, freq. with a neg., γέρας, δύναμις οὐκ ἐ., h.Merc.573, Hdt.7.168, etc.; λόγου ἐλαχίστου of least account, Id.1.143; ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι narrowly missed destroying them, Th.2.77; “περὶ ἐλαχίστου ποιεῖσθαι” Pl. Ap.30a; “παρ᾽ ἐλάχιστον ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς ἀφαιρεθῆναι” D.17.22.
2. of Time, shortest, δι᾽ ἐλαχίστου (sc. χρόνου) Th.3.39; δι᾽ ἐλαχίστης βουλῆς with shortest deliberation, Id.1.138.
3. of Number, fewest, Pl.R.378a; “ἐ. τὸν ἀριθμόν” Arist.Pol.1312a30; ἐν ἐλαχίστοις δυσίν between two at least. Id.EN1131a15.
4. Math., ἐλάχιστα καὶ μέγιστα minima and maxima, Apollon.Perg.Con.1 Praef.
II. τὸ ἐλάχιστον, τοὐλάχιστον, at the least, Hdt.2.13, X.An.5.7.8, D.4.21; ἐλάχιστα least of any one, Th.1.70; ὡς ἐ. as little as possible, Pl.Phd. 63d.
III. from ἐλάχιστος came a new Comp. ἐλαχιστότερος less than the least, “ἐ. πάντων ἁγίων” Ep.Eph.3.8: Sup. ἐλαχιστότατος very least of all, S.E.M.3.54, 9.406.
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 (16):
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1131a.15
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 1, 21
    • Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, 22
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.143
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.13
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.168
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 573
    • Plato, Republic, 378a
    • Plato, Apology, 30a
    • Plato, Phaedo, 63d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.138
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.70
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.77
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.39
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.7.8
    • New Testament, Ephesians, 3.8
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