λοισθήιος
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
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λοισθήιος: -ον, Ἐπικ. ἀντὶ λοίσθιος, λοῖσθος, Ἀντίλοχος δ’ ἄρα δὴ λοισθήιον ἔκφερ’ ἄεθλον, «Ἀντίλοχος δὲ τὸ ἔσχατον ἔπαθλον ἔλαβεν» (Θ. Γαζῆς), Ἰλ. Ψ. 785· ὡσαύτως πληθ., λοισθήι’ ἔθηκεν (δηλ. ἄεθλα) αὐτόθι 751.
English (Autenrieth)
(λοῖσθος): for the last in the race, only of prizes, ἄεθλον; and as subst. λοισθήια (cf. πρωτεῖα, δευτερεῖα), prize for the last, Il. 23.751. (Il.)
