A.perfect gentleman, Hdt.1.30, Ar.Eq.185, 735, al., Th.4.40, 8.48, X.HG5.3.9, Arist.Pol.1293b39, etc.; “καλώ τε κἀγαθώ” X.An.4.1.19; but later in a moral sense, a perfect character, Arist.MM1207b25; also applied to qualities, actions, etc., “οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι” Pl.Ap.21d; “τῶν καλῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἔργων” X. Mem.2.1.20; καρτερία κ. κ. Pl.La.192c; καρδία κ. καὶ ἀ. Ev.Luc.8.15; “πάντα ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ τὰ καλὰ καὶ τἀγαθὰ ἀσκητὰ εἶναι” X.Mem.1.2.23, cf. Cyr.2.1.17; of things, admirable, splendid, ib.3.3.6; πᾶν ὅ τι κ. καὶ ἀ. ἐστιν ἐν Σάρδεσιν ib.7.2.12; “μαντεῖαι πολλαὶ καὶ καλαὶ κἀγ. καὶ ἀληθεῖς” D.Ep.1.16: Sup., “ὅ τι κάλλιστον καὶ ἄριστον ἔχετε” X.An. 2.1.9, cf. 5.6.28: rarely with words between, ἦν καὶ κ., ὦ δέσποτα, καὶ ἀ. v.l. in Id.Cyr.4.6.3; ἅμα μὲν κ., ἅμα δὲ ἀ. Pl.Ti.88c; “κ. μὲν γὰρ ἦν καὶ ἀ. ὁ Βρασίδας” Plu.Lyc.25.
κα^λοκἄγα^θ-ος , ον, an adject. form, perh. only in Poll.4.11 (in all early writers written divisim καλὸς κἀγαθός）; καλὸς κἀγαθός orig. denotes a
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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