ἥκιστα (hekista)

ἥκιστα is an Ancient Greek form of ἥκιστος, meaning “least”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 1,134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.1: δηλοῖ δέ μοι καὶ τόδε τῶν παλαιῶν ἀσθένειαν οὐχ ἥκιστα· πρὸ γὰρ τῶν Τρωικῶν οὐδὲν φαίνεται πρότερον κοινῇ ἐργασαμένη ἡ Ἑλλάς·

Euripides, Hippolytus 1014: ἥκιστά γ’, εἰ μὴ τὰς φρένας διέφθορεν

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 29: … ξαν· ὥστε ταυτὶ μὲν τὰ προγεγραμμένα τῶν σοφῶν τό γνῶθι σαυτόν καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἄγαν ἀποδέχεσθε καὶ θαυμάζειν οὐχ ἣκιστα διὰ τὴν βραχυλογίαν ὡς πυκνὸν καὶ σφυρήλατον νοῦν ἐν ὀλίγῳ περιέχουσαν ὄγκῳ, τοὺς δὲ χρησμοὺς ὅτι συντόμως κα …

All forms of ἥκιστος (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.