βέλτιστος
beltistos
best, most excellent
Appears 127 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Eudemian Ethics 26 ▸
Open Eudemian Ethics › Book II 16 ▸
Chapter 1 1218b31–1220a37
Chapter 3 1220b21–1221b26
Chapter 7 1223a21–1223b36
Book III 8 ▸
Chapter 1 1228a23–1230a33
Chapter 4 1231b27–1232a18
Chapter 7 1233b16–1234b14
Book VII 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1235b13–1238b14
Book VIII 1 ▸
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Politics 25 ▸
Open Politics › Book I 5 ▸
Chapter 2 1252a24–1253a39
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 9 1269a29–1271b19
Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26
Book III 2 ▸
Book IV 5 ▸
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38
Chapter 11 1295a25–1296b12
Book V 1 ▸
Chapter 9 1309a33–1310a38
Book VI 5 ▸
Book VII 5 ▸
Chapter 6 1327a11–1327b19
Chapter 7 1327b20–1328a20
Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10
Chapter 15 1334a11–1334b28
Chapter 16 1334b29–1336a2
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Topics 19 ▸
Open Topics › Book III 9 ▸
Book V 3 ▸
Book VI 4 ▸
Book VII 1 ▸
Book VIII 2 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 13 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book I 2 ▸
Chapter 13 1102a5–1103a10
Book II 1 ▸
Book IV 1 ▸
Chapter 5 1125b26–1126b10
Book VI 2 ▸
Chapter 2 1138b35–1139b13
Book VII 2 ▸
Chapter 8 1150b29–1151a28
Book VIII 2 ▸
Chapter 10 1160a31–1161a9
Book IX 2 ▸
Book X 1 ▸
Chapter 4 1174a13–1175a20
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History of Animals 10 ▸
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Rhetoric 10 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book I 5 ▸
Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37
Chapter 11 1369b33–1372a3
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15
Book II 4 ▸
Chapter 4 1380b35–1382a19
Chapter 6 1383b11–1385a15
Chapter 17 1391a20–1391b6
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
Book III 1 ▸
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On the Heavens 3 ▸
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Generation of Animals 3 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 3 ▸
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Physics 3 ▸
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Metaphysics 2 ▸
Open Metaphysics › Book Δ 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1013a24–1014a25
Book Κ 1 ▸
Chapter 7 1063b36–1064b14
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Oeconomica 2 ▸
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Parts of Animals 2 ▸
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On Sleep 2 ▸
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De Audibilibus 1 ▸
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On Divination in Sleep 1 ▸
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Progression of Animals 1 ▸
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Poetics 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
βέλτιστος, η, ον, Dor. βέντ-, Sup. of ἀγαθός, A. best, most excellent, β. ἀνὴρ γενενῆσθαι περὶ τὸν δῆμον Ar. Eq. 765; ὦ βέλτιστε or β., a common mode of address, my dear friend, Id. Pl. 1172, Antiph. 289, Pl. R. 337e, etc.; ὦ βέλτιστε σύ Eub. 106; ὦ β. ἀνδρῶν Pl. Grg. 515a; ὦ ἄριστε καὶ β. Id. Lg. 902a; βέντισθʼ οὗτος Theoc. 5.76; ὑπὲρ τὸ β. A. Ag. 378; οἱ β. or τὸ β. the aristocracy, X. HG 5.2.6, Cyr. 8.1.16, Ath. 1.5, etc.; τὸ β., in Philos., the highest good, Pl. Phd. 99a, 99b, Epict. Ench. 51, etc.; τὰ β. βουλεύειν Th. 4.68; οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ β. ἀναστρέφεσθαι SIG 593.7(ii B. C.), PTeb. 282.8 (ii A. D.). Adv. βέλτιστα X. Oec. 7.29, etc.; βελτίστως Simp. in Cael. 419.25.
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