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καλλίστην (kallisten)

καλλίστην is an Ancient Greek form of καλός, meaning “beautiful, fine, noble”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 114 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1763: καλλίστην ἐπὶ νῆσον, ἀμείψατο δʼ οὔνομα Θήρης

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi Marini 12.1: Τί δακρύεις, ὦ Θέτι; Καλλίστην, ὦ Δωρί, κόρην εἶδον ἐς κιβωτὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐμβληθεῖσαν, αὐτήν τε καὶ βρέφος αὐτῆς ἀρτιγέννητον· ἐκέλευσεν …

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.