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πλείστοισι (pleistoisi)

πλείστοισι is an Ancient Greek form of πλεῖστος, meaning “most, greatest”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 348: θέλοιμʼ ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.

Hippocrates, De prisca medicina 14·2: … καὶ διαφέροντος δῆλά ἐστιν μετέχοντα, οἷον ἄρτος τε καὶ μᾶζα καὶ τὰ ἑπόμενα τούτοις, οἷς εἴθισται ὁ ἄνθρωπος πλείστοισί τε καὶ αἰεὶ χρῆσθαι, ἔξω τῶν πρὸς ἡδονήν τε καὶ κόρον ἠρτυμένων τε καὶ ἐσκευασμένων. καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων πλείστων …

All forms of πλεῖστος (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.