A.“πρέσβυς” 1, Hp.Aër.10 (pl.), Th.3.67 (pl.), Arist.EN1157b14 (pl.), etc.; the sixth of the seven ages, Hp.Hebd.5; also in Trag. and Com., E.Ph.847, Ar.Eq.525, Nu.358; “πατέρα π. Κρόνον” A.Eu.641; “ἀνὴρ π.” Ar.Ach.707, Antipho 4.1.6; “ὁ ἐκ παιδὸς μέχρι πρεσβύτου χρόνος” Pl.R.608c, etc.; of animals, [“λέοντες] ὅταν γένωνται πρεσβῦται” Arist.HA629b28:—fem. πρεσβῦτις , ιδος, A.Eu.731, 1027, E.Hec.842, Pl.Hp.Ma.286a, Theopomp. Com.78; “πρεσβύτιδες γυναῖκες” Aeschin.3.157; “π. ἄνθρωπος” Lys.1.15.
πρεσβ-ύτης [υ_], ου, ὁ, prose form of
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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