μακρότερον (makroteron)

μακρότερον is an Ancient Greek form of μακρός, meaning “long”. It is the comparative adjective.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.123.1: τὰ μὲν οὖν προγεγενημένα τί δεῖ μακρότερον ἢ ἐς ὅσον τοῖς νῦν ξυμφέρει αἰτιᾶσθαι; περὶ δὲ τῶν ἔπειτα μελλόντων τοῖς παροῦσι βοηθοῦντας χρὴ ἐπιταλαιπωρεῖ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 250: … γαθῆς σου προαιρέσεως, ὅτι φρονεῖς τὰ δέοντα, καὶ συμβουλεύεις ἡμῖν τὰ λυσιτελῆ. Πλὴν ἀλλʼ , ἐπειδὴ πάλιν ὁρῶ μακρότερόν μοι τὸν λόγον γινόμενον, εἰ μέλλοιμι πρὸς ἕκαστον τῶν ἐπεσταλμένων παρὰ τῆς σῆς συνέσεως ἀποκρίνεσθαι, τοσοῦτ …

All forms of μακρός (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.