χείρων, ὁ, ἡ,
neuter χεῖρον, genitive -ονος, accusative -ονα: nominative and accusative plural χείρονες, -ας, χείρονα, contraction in Attic dialect Prose χείρους, χείρ; dative χείροσι, poetry χειρόνεσσι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—(for Epic dialect form χερείων, poetry χειρότερος, χερειότερος, (see entry).):—irregular comparative of κακός: (χείρων from *χερ-yων, compare χερείων):
__I of persons, mcaner, inferior, either in bodily strength and bravery, or in rank, opposed to ἀρείων, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.238, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.133; σὺ μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἐγὼ δὲ σέθεν πολὺ χείρων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.434; τοῦ γένετ᾽ ἐκ πατρὸς πολὺ χείρονος υἱὸς ἀμείνων 15.641, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.82; ἦ πολὺ χείρονες ἄνδρες ἀμύμονος ἀνδρὸς ἄκοιτιν μνῶνται 21.325 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to κρείσσων, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).34(52); τὸν ὄλβιον τόν τε χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 422 (Lyric poetry); τὰ χείρονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 192, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 later in moral sense, worse than others, sometimes almost like a positive, knave, opposed to ἀγαθός, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 456, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.9, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.3; οἱ πένητες καὶ οἱ δημόται καὶ οἱ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.4, compare 3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ χ., opposed to οἱ ἀγαθοί, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460c, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]