ἐκπρεπ-ής, ές,
distinguished out of all, pre-eminent, remarkable, ἐν πολλοῖσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.483 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μία ἐ. [νίκα] [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.12; μεγέθει ἐκπρεπεστάτα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 184 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐγένειαν ἐκπρεπεῖς[[ [prev. work] 442; εἶδος ἐκπρεπεστάτη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 333 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥόδα..τιθήνημ᾽ ἔαρος -έστατον [[ 4th c.BC: Chaeremon Tragicus 13; ἐ. φύσιν 4th c.BC: Nausicrates Comicus 2.6; κότταβος..ἐκπρεπὲς ἔργον 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 2.1; ἐ. [ἰδέα] 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238a; - έστερα ζῷα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 810a8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb -πῶς splendidly, κεκόσμηται [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.59.8: <i>poetry</i> -έως “IG” 3.121] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: comparative -έστερον more conspicuously, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 44.40. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II of things, ={ἔξω τοῦ πρέποντος}, extraordinary, οὐδὲν -έστερον παθεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.55 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb - πῶς without reasonable grounds, [[ [prev. author] 1.38 ] Refs]: superlative - έστατα τιμωρῆσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.31. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]