μέγιστʼ (megist)

μέγιστʼ is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.9.5: καὶ τὰ κλέμματα ταῦτα καλλίστην δόξαν ἔχει ἃ τὸν πολέμιον μάλιστ’ ἄν τις ἀπατήσας τοὺς φίλους μέγιστ’ ἂν ὠφελήσειεν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.63: … ὐτῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁπλοῦ, ὡς καὶ παρὰ Εὐριπίδῃ ἐν Λικυμνίῳ φέρεται ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους οὑτωσί· φαῦλον, ἄκομψον, τὰ μέγιστʼ ἀγαθόν, πᾶσαν ἐν ἔργῳ περιταμνόμενον σοφίαν, λέσχης ἀτρίβωνα.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 81: … εστὼς ὁ θεῖος τοῦ νεανίσκου, ἄγροικος ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἰδιώτης ὡς πρὸς τὰ ὑμέτερα, Πέπαυσο, εἶπεν, ὦ θαυμάσιε, τὰ μέγιστ' ἠδικῆσθαι λέγων, εἰ ῥημάτια παρὰ σοῦ πριάμενοι μηδέπω ἐκτετίκαμεν διάφορον. καίτοι ἃ μὲν ἡμῖν πέπρακας, ἔχεις …

All forms of μέγας (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.