A.glorious, distinguished, X.HG5.1.36; brilliant, successful, -έστερα τὰ “πράγματα ἐποίησεν” Isoc.4.139; “-έστεραι ἐλπίδες” Plb.16.4.3; and of persons, -έστερος ταῖς ἐλπίσι more sanguine, Id.5.69.11, cf. Ph.1.252, al., Onos.23.2. Adv. Comp. “-εστέρως, ἀγωνίζεσθαι” Plb.5.23.2.
ἐπικυ_δ-ής , ές, only in Comp. -έστερος (unless the Posit. is to be restored in Sapph.Supp.8.11),
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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