The corpus record

βέλτ-ιστος

beltistos

best, most excellent

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 2 16 · 37.49/10k
Lovers 7 · 29.28/10k
Minos 5 · 17.53/10k
Gorgias 37 · 14.06/10k
Cleitophon 2 · 12.92/10k
Theages 4 · 11.51/10k
Eudemian Ethics 26 · 9.96/10k
Hipparchus 2 · 8.87/10k
De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Apology 6 · 6.87/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 2 · 6.73/10k
Epistles 11 · 6.49/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βέλτ-ιστος · belt-istos — LSJ

best, most excellent, my dear friend, the aristocracy, the highest good

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; βέντισθʼ οὗτος Theoc. 5.76; ὑπὲρ τὸ β. A. Ag. 378; οἱ β. or τὸ β. the aristocracy, X. HG 5.2.6, 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.

In the wild

βέλτιστον · beltiston Aeschylus, Agamemnon 373–377
βελτίστη · beltistē Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16
βέλτιστα · beltista Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..11 (DIORISIS sentence 130)
βέλτιστοι · beltistoi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..28 (DIORISIS sentence 358)
βέλτιστα · beltista Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..29 (DIORISIS sentence 364)
βέλτιστον · beltiston Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..35 (DIORISIS sentence 426)

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Where it came from

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