ἄριστε (ariste)

ἄριστε is an Ancient Greek form of ἄριστος, meaning “best, noblest, bravest”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 103 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 13·2: ἄριστα δʼ εἰρηκότος Ὁμήρου τὸ Δύσπαρι εἶδος ἄριστε καὶ τὸ Ἕκτορ εἶδος ἄριστε ψόγου γὰρ ἀποφαίνει καὶ λοιδορίας ἄξιον ᾧ μηδέν ἐστιν ἀγαθὸν εὐμορφίας κάλλιον ἐφαρ …

Procopius, De Bellis 2.19.36: οὗ δὴ ἀναστὰς πρῶτος. Ἰωάννης ὁ Νικήτου υἱὸς ἔλεξε τοιάδε “Ἄριστε Βελισάριε, στρατηγὸν μὲν οὔτε τὴν τύχην οὔτε τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐκ τοῦ παντὸς χρόνου γεγενῆσθαι τοιοῦτον οἶμαι οἶος αὐτὸς εἶ.

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.