κάλλιστος (kallistos)

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

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.72: … του τῶν γεννητῶν τὸ ἄριστον εἶναι τῶν νοητῶν αἴτιον. ὥστε ἐπεὶ τοιοῦτος ὁ θεός, ὅμοιος δὲ τῷ ἀρίστῳ ὁ οὐρανὸς κάλλιστός γε ὤν, οὐθενὶ ἂν ὅμοιος εἴη τῶν γεννητῶν ἀλλʼ ἢ τῷ θεῷ.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 13.72: οὕτω μὲν κάλλιστος Ὕλας μακάρων ἀμιθρεῖται·

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 19.64: ἐπεὶ καὶ Κάλλιστος, ἀπελεύθερος δʼ ἦν Γαΐου πλεῖστά τε ἀνὴρ εἷς οὗτος ἐπὶ μέγιστον δυνάμεως ἀφίκετο καὶ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ἰσοτύραννον εἶχε τὴν δύναμιν φόβῳ τε τῶν πάντων καὶ μεγέθει χρημάτων, ἅπερ ἐγένετο αὐτῷ·

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.