κρείσσων: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[comp. of [[κρατύς]] [v. [[κράτιστος]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> stronger, mightier, [[more]] [[powerful]], Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[sense]] often as comp. of [[ἀγαθός]], [[better]], οἱ κρέσσονες one's [[betters]], Pind.; so, τὰ κρείσσω Eur.: —τὰ κρείσσονα one's advantages, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. inf., [[οὔτις]] [[κρείσσων]] [[δόμεναι]] no one has a [[better]] [[right]] to [[give]], Od.: —κρεῖσσόν ἐστι, c. inf., 'tis [[better]] to…, κρεῖσσόν ἐστι [[θανεῖν]] ἢ πάσχειν [[κακῶς]] Aesch.:—also [[κρείσσων]] [[εἰμί]], c. [[part]]., [[κρείσσων]] [[ἦσθα]] μηκέτ' ὢν ἢ ζῶν [[τυφλός]] thou wert [[better]] not [[alive]], [[than]] [[living]] [[blind]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> too [[great]] for, [[ὕψος]] κρεῖσσον ἐκπηδήματος too [[great]] for leaping out of, Aesch.; κρείσσον' ἀγχόνης too bad for [[hanging]], Soph.; ἐλπίδος κρ. [[worse]] [[than]] one [[expected]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> having [[power]] [[over]], [[master]] of, γαστρός Xen.; κρ. χρημάτων [[superior]] to bribes, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> in [[attic]] Prose in [[moral]] [[sense]], [[better]], [[more]] [[excellent]], Ar.