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μεγίστην (megisten)

μεγίστην is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 421 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10.3: … υν ἀπιστεῖν εἰκός, οὐδὲ τὰς ὄψεις τῶν πόλεων μᾶλλον σκοπεῖν ἢ τὰς δυνάμεις, νομίζειν δὲ τὴν στρατείαν ἐκείνην μεγίστην μὲν γενέσθαι τῶν πρὸ αὑτῆς, λειπομένην δὲ τῶν νῦν, τῇ Ὁμήρου αὖ ποιήσει εἴ τι χρὴ κἀνταῦθα πιστεύειν, ἣν εἰκὸ …

Hyperides, Against Athenogenes 18: … όμενος διαθήκας γράψῃ ἄκυροι ἔσονται, εἰ δʼ ἐγὼ τῇ Ἀθηνογένους ἑταίρᾳ ἐπείσθην, προσαπολωλέναι με δεῖ, ὃς ἔχω μεγίςτην βοήθειαν τὴν ἐν τῷ νόμῳ γεγραμμένην, ἀναγκασθεὶς ὑπὸ τούτων ταῦτα συνθέσθαι; εἶτα σὺ ταῖς συνθήκαις ἰςχυρίζῃ …

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.