βέλτιστος

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Menander, Monostichoi, 187
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Full diacritics: βέλτιστος Medium diacritics: βέλτιστος Low diacritics: βέλτιστος Capitals: ΒΕΛΤΙΣΤΟΣ
Transliteration A: béltistos Transliteration B: beltistos Transliteration C: veltistos Beta Code: be/ltistos

English (LSJ)

η, ον, Dor. βέντ-, Sup. of ἀγαθός,

   A best, most excellent, β. ἀνὴρ γενενῆσθαι περὶ τὸν δῆμον Ar.Eq. 765; ὦ βέλτιστε or β., a common mode of address, my dear friend, Id.Pl.1172, Antiph.289, Pl.R.337e, etc.; ὦ βέλτιστε σύ Eub.106; ὦ β. ἀνδρῶν Pl.Grg.515a; ὦ ἄριστε καὶ β. Id.Lg.902a; βέντισθ' οὗτος Theoc.5.76; ὑπὲρ τὸ β. A.Ag.378; οἱ β. or τὸ β. the aristocracy, X. HG5.2.6, Cyr.8.1.16, Ath.1.5, etc.; τὸ β., in Philos., the highest good, Pl.Phd.99a, 99b, Epict.Ench.51, etc.; τὰ β. βουλεύειν Th.4.68; οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ β. ἀναστρέφεσθαι SIG593.7(ii B. C.), PTeb.282.8 (ii A. D.). Adv. βέλτιστα X.Oec.7.29, etc.; βελτίστως Simp. in Cael.419.25.

German (Pape)

[Seite 442] superl. zu ἀγαθός, der trefflichste, beste; häufig ὦ βέλτιστε, Plat. u. Ar. aus der Umgangssprache, ironisch; τὸ βέλτιστον, das Beste, sowohl das moralisch Gute, als das Nützliche, Zuträglichste, ὠφέλιμον erklärt, Plat. Alc. II, 145 c; βέλτιστα, aufs beste, Plat. u. Folgde; ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου Dion. Hal. 1, 76. Bei Xen. Ath. 1, 5. 3, 10 stehen οἱ βέλτιστοι u. τὸ βέλτιστον, optimates, dem δῆμος entgegen.