βέλτερος

English (LSJ)

α, ον,

   A = βελτίων, poet. Comp. of ἀγαθός, better, more excellent, Hom. only in neut., βέλτερόν [ἐστι] it is better, c. inf., Il.15.511, 21.485: c. dat. pers. et inf., Od.17.18; βέλτερον εἰ . . 6.282, cf. Thgn.92, A.Th.337, etc.: Sup. βέλτατος, η, ον, Id.Eu.487, Supp. 1054.

German (Pape)

[Seite 441] p. = βελτίων, Hom. Odyss. 6, 282. 17, 18 (v. l. βέλτιον) Iliad. 14, 81. 15, 511. 18, 302. 21, 485. 22; 129. 23, 605 (v. l. δεύτερον), überall in der Form βέλτερον neutr.; – Hesiod. Op. 365 βέλτερον neutr.; Aeschyl. Suppl. 1070; Sept. 337 βέλτερα; Theogn. 92 und Pseudo-Phocylid. 130 = 122 mascul. βέλτερος. – Aeschyl. hat auch einen superlat. βέλτατος, Eumenid. 487 βέλτατα, Suppl. 1055 βέλτατον.