ἀρίστους (aristous)

ἀρίστους is an Ancient Greek form of ἄριστος, meaning “best, noblest, bravest”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 254 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1351: τοῖο δὲ ῥύσιʼ ὄπασσαν ἀποκρίναντες ἀρίστους

Appianus of Alexandria, Punic Wars 20.135: … αὶ τοῖς θεοῖς ἐγίγνοντο κατὰ φυλήν, καὶ ἀγῶνες ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ θέαι ποικίλαι. δέκα δὲ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἡ βουλὴ τοὺς ἀριστους ἔπεμπε διαθησομένους Λιβύην μέτα Σκιπίωνος ἐς τὸ Ῥωμαίων συμφέρον· οἳ Καρχηδόνος μὲν εἴ τι περίλοιπον ἔτι ἦν, …

All forms of ἄριστος (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.