κάλλιον (kallion)

κάλλιον is an Ancient Greek form of καλός, meaning “beautiful, fine, noble”. It is the nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 302 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.118.9: τοῖς μὲν Λακεδαιμονίοις καὶ τοῖς ξυμμάχοις ταῦτα δοκεῖ· εἰ δέ τι ὑμῖν εἴτε κάλλιον εἴτε δικαιότερον τούτων δοκεῖ εἶναι, ἰόντες ἐς Λακεδαίμονα διδάσκετε· οὐδενὸς γὰρ ἀποστήσονται, ὅσα ἂν δίκαια λέγητε, οὔτε οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι οὔτε οἱ ξύμμαχοι.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.76: εὑρησεῖς Γαλάτειαν ἴσως καὶ καλλίονʼ ἄλλαν.

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 10.4: … λλον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἠγάπησαν, ἀφʼ ἧς κατεφρόνει τηλικούτων, ἢ διʼ ὧν ἠξιοῦτο. τὸ μὲν γὰρ εὖ χρῆσθαι χρήμασι κάλλιόν ἐστιν ἢ ὅπλοις, τοῦ δὲ χρῆσθαι τὸ μὴ δεῖσθαι χρημάτων σεμνότερον.

All forms of καλός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.