Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, περισσός

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2.out of the common way, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable, signal, strange, εἴ τι περισσὸν εἰδείη σοφίης if he has any signal gift of wisdom, Theogn.; so, π. λόγος Soph.; οὐ γὰρ περισσὸν οὐδὲν οὐδ᾽ ἔξω λόγου πέπονθας Eur.

3.of persons, extraordinary, eminent, remarkable, esp. for learning, id=Eur.

4.c. gen., περισσὸς ἄλλων πρός τι beyond others in a thing, Soph.; θύσει τοῦδε περισσότερα greater things than this, Anth.; περιττότερος προφήτου greater than a prophet, NTest.

II.more than sufficient, redundant, superfluous, Xen.; περιττὸν ἔχειν to have a surplus, id=Xen.; c. gen., τῶν ἀρκούντων περιττά more than sufficient, id=Xen.:—often in military sense, οἱ π. ἱππεῖς the reserve horse, id=Xen.; π. σκηναί spare tents, id=Xen.; τὸ π. the surplus, residue, id=Xen.

2.in bad sense, superfluous, Trag.

3.excessive, extravagant, περισσὰ μηχανᾶσθαι to commit extravagancies, Hdt.; περισσὰ δρᾶν, πράσσειν to be over busy, Soph.

4.of persons, extravagant, over-curious, περισσὸς καὶ φρονῶν μέγα Eur.; π. ἐν τοῖς λόγοις Δημοσθένης Aeschin.

III.in Arithmetic, ἀριθμὸς περιττός is an odd, uneven number, opp. to ἄρτιος, Plat., etc.

B.adv. περισσῶς, extraordinarily, exceedingly, Hdt., Eur.; π. παῖδας ἐκδιδάσκεσθαι to have them educated overmuch, Eur.; also περισσά, Pind., Eur.

2.in a peculiar manner, remarkably, περισσότερον τῶν ἄλλων θάψαι τινά more sumptuously, Hdt.

3.often with a negat., οὐδὲν περισσότερον τῶν ἄλλων Plat.

4.τὰ περισσά in vain, Anth.

II.ἐκ περιττοῦ as adv. superfluously, uselessly, Plat.

1 περισσός, attic περιττός, ή, όν

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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