A.= ὑβριστικός, wanton, insolent, outrageous, “ἔργον” Pherecr.162; ὕ. χρῆμα (sc. ἡ γυνή) Pl.Com.98:—hence Comp. “ὑβριστότερος” Hdt.3.81 (v.l. ὑβριστικώτερος), X.Cyr.5.5.41, Pl.Lg. 641c: Sup. “ὑβριστότατος” Ar.V.1303, X.An.5.8.22, Mem.1.2.12, Pl. Lg.808d.—In AB368 (where Pherecr. and Pl.Com. are cited) we are told that ὕβριστος is of the same type as Superlatives like βέλτιστος, κάλλιστος, κράτιστος, etc.; in which case ὑβριστότερος, -ότατος would have to be regarded as doubled forms of comparison:— ὑβριστός oxyt. is cited in EM697.56.
ὕβρ-ιστος , η, ον,
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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