Dictionary Excellence

  1. the state of excelling; surpassing merit or quality.
  2. the activity in which a person excels.

Greek: exochos

Latin: excellentia

Exochos

  1. on, standing out, jutting, Pind. N. 4.52; Eur. Hipp. 530:
    1. case genitive, prominent above them, Hom. Il. 3.227.
  2. more frequently metaphorically, eminent, excellent, Hom. Il. 2.188; Pind. N. 6.47:
      1. Comparative exoch-ôteros Pind. N. 3.71:
      2. Superlative exoch-ôtatos Pind. N. 2.18, Aesch. Ag. 1622, Eur. Supp. 889;
        1. exoch-ôtaton Phld.Lib.p.20O.;
        2. exochôtatos, = Latin eminentissimus, Phld. Lib. (III C.E.), POxy.1469.1 (III C.E.), cf. IG14.2433 (Massilia, III C.E.);
        3. exoch-ôtatoi Hdn.2.12.6.
    1. case genitive, standing out from, raised above, frequently used like a Superlative, most eminent, mightiest, Hom. Il. 18.56; Hom. Il. 6.194, etc.; Hom. Il. 2.480; Aesch. PB 459; S.Fr.591; beyond all his contemporaries, IG12.1021.
    2. case dative, Hom. Od. 21.266, cf. Hom. Od. 15.227; also Hom. Il. 2.483.
  3. frequently in Homer in plural,
      1. exocha as Adverb (cf. ocha ), especially, above others, Hom. Od. 15.70, cf. Hom. Il. 5.61; Hom. Od. 11.432; gave me as a high honour, Hom. Od. 9.551:
      2. with Superlative, beyond compare the best, Hom. Il. 9.638, Hom. Od. 4.629, al.
    1. case genitive, far above all, Hom. Il. 14.257, etc.; Pind. P. 5.26; above all wealth, Pind. O. 1.2.
    2. Regular Adverb exoch-ôs Pind. O. 9.69, Eur. Ba. 1235, Lyc.1195, Arist.Mu.400b1, LXX 3 Ma.5.31:
    3. Comparative exoch-ôteron Sor.1.99:
    4. Superlative exoch-ôtata Pind. N. 4.92.

Excellentia

  1. superiority, excellence, perfection (abstr. and rel.): magna cum excellentia praestantiaque animantium reliquarum, Cic. Off. 1, 28; cf. id. ib. 1, 27 fin.: animi excellentia magnitudoque, id. ib. 1, 5, 17; so, picturae, Plin. 35, 14, 49, § 173: crurum, id. 34, 8, 19, § 82; Prud. steph. 10, 52:
  2. propter excellentiam, pre-eminence, Gr. kat exochên, ut Homerus propter excellentiam commune poëtarum nomen efficit apud Graecos suum, Cic. Top. 13, 55; cf.: per excellentiam, Sen. Ep. 58, 17.
  3. Plur.: saepe excellentiae quaedam sunt, qualis erat Scipionis in nostro grege, Cic. Lael. 19, 69.

See also

  • Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: exochos
  • Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary: excellentia

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