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ἥκιστος , η, ον, prob., like foreg., Sup. of ἦκα,
A.least, “ὁ δ᾽ ἥκιστ᾽ ἔχων μακάρτατος” S.Fr.410.
2. c. inf., worst at . . , ἥ. θηρᾶν, κρυμῷ ὁμιλεῖν, Ael.NA9.1,4.31 (cf. foreg.).
II. mostly as Adv., ἥκιστα least, Hp.Acut.68, S.Ph.427, etc.; “οὐκ ἥ. ἀλλὰ μάλιστα” Hdt.4.170; ὡς ἥ. as little as possible, Th.1.91.
2. in reply to a question, not at all, S.OT623, E.HF299, etc.; “ἥκιστά γε” S.OT1386, Pl.Phdr.276c; “ἥ. πάντων” Ar.Pl.440.
3. οὐχ ἥ., freq. in litotes, above all, more than all, A.Ch.116; “οἵ τε ἄλλοι καὶ οὐχ ἥ. Ἀθηναῖοι” Pl.Prt.324c, cf. Tht. 177c, Smp.178a, al.; “ἐπὶ πολλῶν μέν . . , οὐχ ἥ. δὲ ἐν τοῖς παροῦσι πράγμασι” D.2.1, cf. Th.7.44, etc.: c. gen., “οὐχ ἥ. Ἀθηναίων σέ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα” Pl.Cri.52a.
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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