χειρῶν

ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death

French (Bailly abrégé)

part. prés. de χειρόω.

χεῖρον (comparitive of κακός; derived from the obsolete χερης, which has been preserved in the dative χερηι, accusative χερηα, plural χερεης, χερηα; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 268 (cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word χερης) (from Homer down), worse: γίνεται τά ἔσχατα χείρονα τῶν πρώτων, εἰς τό χεῖρον ἔρχεσθαι (to grow worse), of one whose illness increases, ἵνα μή χεῖρον σοι τί γένηται, lest some worse thing befall thee, πόσῳ χειρῶν τιμωρία (A. V. how much sorer punishment), ἐπί τό χεῖρον προκόπτειν (A. V. wax worse and worse); see προκόπτω, 2), σπιστου χειρῶν, 1 Timothy 5:8.