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ἀμείνων , ον, gen. ονος, irreg. Comp. of ἀγαθός,
A.better:
I. of persons, stouter, stronger, braver, freq. Hom., etc.: “μέγ᾽ ἀ.” Il.22.158; “πολλὸν ἀ.” Hes.Op.19: c. acc. vel inf., “ἀμείνων παντοίας ἀρετάς, ἠμὲν πόδας ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι” Il.15.641, cf. Hes.Op.445, A.Pr.337, etc.; ο<*>῾ ἀμείνονες the better sort, Pl.Lg.627a.
II. of things, “ὀμίχλην νυκτὸς ἀμείνω” Il.3.11; esp. from Hom. downwds., ἄμεινόν [ἐστι] 'tis better, either c. inf., “ἐπεὶ πείθεσθαι ἄ.” Il.1.274, cf. S.El.1238, etc.; or ἄμεινόν ἐστι or γίγνεταί τινι c. part., εἴ σφι ἄμεινον γίγνεται τιμωρέουσι if it is good for them to assist, Hdt.7.169, cf. Th.1.118, 6.9: abs., “εἰ τό γ᾽ ἄ.” Il.1.116; “βουλοίμην . . εἴ τι ἄ. καὶ ὑμῖν καὶ ἐμοί” Pl.Ap.19a; freq. with neg., οὐ γὰρ ἄ. 'twere better not, Hes.Op.750, Hdt.1.187; “εἰρήσεται γάρ, εἴτ᾽ ἄ. εἴτε μή” D.21.198.
2. neut. as Adv., ἄ. πρήσσειν to fare better, Hdt.4.156 sq., etc.; συνήνεικεν Ἀθηναίοις ἐπὶ τὸ ἄ. Decr. ap. And.1.77, cf. Orac. ap. D.43.86; τὰ ἀμείνω φρονέειν choose the better part, Hdt.7.145; “τοῖσι τὰ ἀ. ἑάνδανε” Id.9.19.
III. Adv. “ἀμεινόνως” Ar.Fr.340.
IV. new Comp. ἀμεινότερος, α, ον, formed from ἀμείνων, Mimn.14.9, Poet. ap. Phld. Rh.2.61S.<
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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