A.= πρέσβυς, old man, ib.4992a iii 2; also in Comp., acc. sg. “πρείγονα” older, Leg.Gort. 12.34, cf. Supp.Epigr.1.414.9 (Crete, v/iv B. C., dub. sens.), and Sup. “πρείγιστος” oldest, Leg.Gort.7.23, al.—Cogn. forms are πρεγγευτάς , πρεσγευτάς , πρεισγευτάς , = πρεσβευτής, Supp.Epigr.4.599.13, 17 (Teos, ii B. C.), GDI 5148.12, 5167.11; πρήγιστος , = πρέσβιστος, president, ib.5034.5; βουλῆς ib.2562.23 (Hierapytna); also πρίγιστος , Sammelb.1042 (vi B. C.); πρεσγέα , ἁ, Argive for πρεσβεία, SIG 56.38 (Argos, v B. C.). (For the etym. v. πρέσβυς fin.)
πρεῖγ-υς , ὁ, Cret.,
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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