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Καλλίστη (Kalliste)

Καλλίστη means “Kalliste — a surname of Artemis, by which she was worshipped at Athens and Tegea”.

Ancient Greek word, found 3 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Pindar, Pythian 4.258: ἤθεσι τάν ποτε Καλλίσταν ἀπῴκησαν χρόνῳ

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.29.2: … ὲ ἀνδρὸς ἰδιώτου, γυμνάσιον δὲ ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ. κατιοῦσι δʼ ἐς αὐτὴν περίβολός ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ ξόανα Ἀρίστης καὶ Καλλίστης· ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ δοκῶ καὶ ὁμολογεῖ τὰ ἔπη τὰ Πάμφω, τῆς Ἀρτέμιδός εἰσιν ἐπικλήσεις αὗται, λεγόμενον δὲ καὶ ἄλλον ἐ …

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.