πρεσβύτατοι (presbytatoi)

πρεσβύτατοι is an Ancient Greek form of πρέσβυς, meaning “old; elder, ambassador”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.105.4: οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι τὸ μὲν πρὸς Αἰγίνῃ στράτευμα οὐκ ἐκίνησαν, τῶν δ’ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ὑπολοίπων οἵ τε πρεσβύτατοι καὶ οἱ νεώτατοι ἀφικνοῦνται ἐς τὰ Μέγαρα Μυρωνίδου στρατηγοῦντος.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.69.2: … ὸς Ἕρνικας ἐξήνεγκεν ὁμολογίας· αὗται δʼ ἦσαν ἀντίγραφοι τῶν πρὸς Λατίνους γενομένων, ἐφʼ αἷς πάνυ ἤχθοντο οἱ πρεσβύτατοί τε καὶ τιμιώτατοι καὶ διʼ ὑποψίας αὐτὸν ἐλάμβανον οὐκ ἀξιοῦντες τῆς ἴσης τιμῆς τοῖς συγγενέσι Λατίνοις τοὺς ἀ …

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.