καλλίους (kallious)

καλλίους is an Ancient Greek form of καλός, meaning “beautiful, fine, noble”.

It can also be a form of καλλιόω, “make more beautiful”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 9.14.7·2: Εὐτέρπῃ δὲ πᾶς ἄν τις ἀποδοίη τὸ θεωρητικὸν τῆς περὶ φύσιν ἀληθείας, οὔτε καθαρωτέρας οὔτε καλλίους ἑτέρῳ γένει παραλιπὼν εὐπαθείας καὶ τέρψεις. τῆς δʼ ἐπιθυμίας τὸ μὲν περὶ ἐδωδὴν καὶ πόσιν ἡ Θάλεια κοινωνητι …

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.