μέγιστοι (megistoi)

μέγιστοι is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 38.3: ὃ καὶ χρόνοις ὕστερον Ἄππιος ὠνείδισεν Ἀφρικανῷ Σκηπίωνι. μέγιστοι γὰρ ὄντες ἐν τῇ πόλει τότε τὴν τιμητικὴν ἀρχὴν μετῄεσαν, ὁ μὲν τὴν βουλὴν ἔχων καὶ τοὺς ἀρίστους περὶ αὑτόν· …

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 27: … ἐνδεεστέραν παρασχομένους καὶ παθόντας ἀνάξια τῆς ἀρετῆς, ἀφείσθω διαβεβλημένων δὲ τῶν Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν, ἐν οἷς οἱ μέγιστοὶ τε τῶν οἴκων καὶ δοκιμώτατοι τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἦσαν, ἐλάττων λόγος· ἀνατέτραπται δὲ τῆς νίκης τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὸ τέλο …

Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.29: μὴ ὑμεῖς γε, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀλλʼ ἑαυτῶν ὄντας τοὺς νόμους, διʼ οὓς μάλιστα μέγιστοί ἐστε, φυλάττοντες, ἄνευ τούτων μηδὲν πράττειν πειρᾶσθε. ἐπανέλθετε δὲ καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτὰ τὰ πράγματα καθʼ ἃ καὶ αἱ …

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.