Ὦ λῷστε
o finest (of friends)!
Translated by William Bubelis5 May 2000Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] o best (of friends)!
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὦ λῷστε· ὦ βέλτιστε.
Betacode
*)=w lw=|ste: w)= be/ltiste.
Notes
- Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
Little semantic difference can be discerned between these two forms of address involving superlative adjectives; cf. generally lambda 738. For the headword version see e.g. Sophocles, Philoctetes 1170-1; Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.38, Symposium 4.1; Plato, Gorgias 467B, Laws 638A, 789A, 968A.
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Revision history2 revisions · last 31 Oct 2013
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- supplied headword; modified note; added keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Bubelis