ἐπιεικέστερον (epieikesteron)

ἐπιεικέστερον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιεικής, meaning “reasonable, fitting, decent”. It is the adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 29.4: … μοίων. ταῦτʼ ἀκούσαντες οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τόν τε πόλεμον ἐφοβοῦντο, καὶ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν γυναικῶν οὐδὲν αἰχμαλωσίας ἐπιεικέστερον ἔχειν ἐνόμιζον. ἀποροῦσι δʼ αὐτοῖς θεράπαινα Φιλωτίς, ὡς δʼ ἔνιοι λέγουσι Τουτόλα καλουμένη, συνεβούλευσε μηδ …

Plutarch, De Vitioso Pudore 15: … ἕλκεσθαι· καὶ ὁ Κάτλος αἰσχυνθείς, πρὸς ὀργὴν ἀπῆλθε. σκόπει δὲ μὴ τὸ τοῦ Ἀγησιλάου καὶ τὸ τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους ἐπιεικέστερόν ἐστι, καὶ μετριώτερον. ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἀγησίλαος ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς κελευόμενος κρῖναί τινα δίκην παρὰ τὸν νόμον, ἀλλʼ …

All forms of ἐπιεικής (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.