πρέσβυ (presby)

πρέσβυ is an Ancient Greek form of πρέσβυς, meaning “old; elder, ambassador”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.117: … ῷ, ἀλλὰ μόνον. τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ καὶ Βίωνα ἐρωτηθέντα εἰ θεοί εἰσιν εἰπεῖν· οὐκ ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ σκεδάσεις ὄχλον, ταλαπείριε πρέσβυ; Ἦν δʼ ὁ Στίλπων καὶ ἀφελὴς καὶ ἀνεπίπλαστος πρός τε τὸν ἰδιώτην εὔθετος. Κράτητος γοῦν ποτε τοῦ κυνικοῦ πρὸς …

All forms of πρέσβυς (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.