ἀριστεύω
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
English (LSJ)
A to be best or bravest, αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων Il.6.208; ὃς δέ κ' ἀριστεύῃσι μάχῃ ἔνι 11.409; ἐν ἀέθλοισιν ἀ. Pi.N.11.14; gain the prize for valour (v. ἀριστεῖα, τά), gain the highest distinction, Hdt.3.55, 9.105, Pl.R.468b, Isoc.9.16. 2 c. gen., ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι Τρώων he was the best of the Trojans... Il.6.460, cf. Hdt.5.112, 7.106, al.; οὕνεκα βουλῇ ἀριστεύεσκεν ἁπάντων Il.11.627, cf. Pi.N.10.10. 3 c. inf., ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι he was best at fighting, Il.16.292,551, etc.; ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι Τρώων, v. supr. 4 c.acc.rei, ἀ. τι to be best in a thing, στάδιον Pi.O.10(11).64, cf. 13.43; ἰάλεμον Theoc.15.98. 5 c. acc. cogn., win as ἀριστεῖα, τὰ πρῶτα καλλιστεῖ' ἀριστεύσας S.Aj. 435, cf. 1300; πάντα ἀ. Id.Tr.488, Pl.R.540a; μεμιγμένην ἀριστείαν ἀ. Plu.Pel.34. II of things, to be best, ἀριστεύοισαν εὐκάρπου χθονός best of all lands on fruitful earth, Pi.N.1.14; τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ A.Pr.890 (lyr.); of an opinion, prevail, Hdt.7.144.
