ἀσφαλέστερον (asphalesteron)

ἀσφαλέστερον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσφαλής, meaning “safe, secure”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.37.1: … αι, μνησθέντας πρῶτον καὶ ἡμᾶς περὶ ἀμφοτέρων οὕτω καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἄλλον λόγον ἰέναι, ἵνα τὴν ἀφ’ ἡμῶν τε ἀξίωσιν ἀσφαλέστερον προειδῆτε καὶ τὴν τῶνδε χρείαν μὴ ἀλογίστως ἀπώσησθε.

Plutarch, De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae Apparet 4: … στὶν ἄτοπον καὶ ψεῦδος, ἢ μιᾶς οὔσης, οὐ πιθανὸν εἰκόνα διεσπασμένην οὕτως ἐμφαίνεσθαι. ἐκεῖνο μὲν γὰρ ἐρωτᾶν ἀσφαλέστερόν ἐστιν ἢ ἀποφαίνεσθαι σοῦ παρόντος, εἰ, τῆς οἰκουμένης εὖρος ἴσης καὶ μῆκος, ἐνδέχεται πᾶσιν ὡσαύτως ἀπὸ τῆς σ …

All forms of ἀσφαλής (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.