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ἐκπρεπής

ekprepes

distinguished out of all, pre-eminent, remarkable

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ἐκπρεπ-ής · ekprep-ēs — LSJ

distinguished out of all, pre-eminent, remarkable, splendidly, more conspicuously

distinguished out of all, pre-eminent, remarkable, ἐν πολλοῖσι Il. 2.483; μία ἐ. [νίκα] Pi. P. 7.12; μεγέθει ἐκπρεπεστάτα A. Pers. 184; εὐγένειαν ἐκπρεπεῖς ib. 442; εἶδος ἐκπρεπεστάτη E. Alc. 333; ῥόδα..τιθήνημ’ ἔαρος -έστατον Chaerem. 13; ἐ. φύσιν Nausicr. 2.6; κότταβος..ἐκπρεπὲς ἔργον Critias 2.1; ἐ. [ἰδέα] Pl. Phdr. 238a; -έστερα ζῷα Arist. Phgn. 810a8. Adv. -πῶς splendidly, κεκόσμηται Plb. 5.59.8 : poet. -έως IG 3.121 : Comp. -έστερον more conspicuously, D.C. 44.40.

II extraordinary, without reasonable grounds

of things, = ἔξω τοῦ πρέποντος, extraordinary, οὐδὲν -έστερον παθεῖν Th. 3.55. Adv. -πῶς without reasonable grounds, Id. 1.38 : Sup. -έστατα τιμωρῆσαι X. Smp. 8.31.

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