καλλίων (kallion)

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

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 28.3: … εως ἐπὶ τὴν αὑτοῦ τάξιν αἵματος κατάπλεως καὶ γαῦρος, ὑπὸ τῆς νίκης ἐπηρμένος, καὶ μείζων ἔδοξε γεγονέναι καὶ καλλίων ταῖς Λακαίναις, καὶ τὴν Χιλωνίδα τοῦ ἔρωτος ἐζήλουν. τῶν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων τινὲς ἐπηκολούθουν βοῶντες· οἶχε, Ἀκρ …

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.