πρέσβῠς,
[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.282, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 530 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], εως or εος (see. below [[ 11), ὁ, _vocative_ πρέσβῠ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 476, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 146 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—old man (poetry for prose πρεσβύτης), in this sense only used in nominative, accusative, and vocative, ὁ π. Πόλυβος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 941; Φοῖνιξ ὁ π. [prev. author] “Ph.” 562; δριμὺς π. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 255 (Lyric poetry); πατέρά πρές βυν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 665; πρέσβυ [prev. author] “OT” 1013, 1121; ὦ πρέσβυ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus [same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus [same place]; ὁ π. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]the elder, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 184 (Lyric poetry), 205 (Lyric poetry), 530 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare πρέσβα, πρέσβειρα, πρεσβηΐς, πρέσβις: plural πρέσβεις, elders, three times in Trag., always vocative (see.[[ below 111), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 840, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1111, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 247 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; for πρεσβῆ, πρεσβῆες, πρισγεῖες, see at {πρεσβεύς}: comparative and superlative are the only forms found in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], comparative πρεσβύτερος, α, ον (late πρεσβυτερωτέρα [[ “PLond.” 2.177.15 (1st c.AD))] Refs 1st c.AD+], elder, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.787, 15.204, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πλεῖν ἢ 'νιαυτῷ by more than a year, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρεσβυτέρα ἀριθμοῦ older than the fit number, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 127 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βουλαὶ πρεσβύτεραι thy counsels wise beyond thy years, [[ [prev. author] “P.” 2.65; γνώμη π. τῆς ἡλικίας 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.30; οἱ σοφοὶ καὶ π. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Eudemia” 1215a23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of animals, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 546a7; ἵππος π. ἤδη ὤν ] Refs]rather old, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 225.8 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also δένδρα π. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 1.13.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τὸ π. ἰέναι become older, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 631e; ἵνα μὴ π. ὢν ῥέμβωμαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]in my old age, PCair. Zen. [[ 447.9 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: superlative πρεσβύτατος, η, ον, eldest, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.59, 11.740, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 234, etc.; π. γενεῇ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.24 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a term of respect, ἐγὼ παλαιότατός εἰμι σὺ δὲ π. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 15 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of animals, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 546a4, +others: for the poetry forms πρέσβιστος, πρεσβίστατος, see at {πρέσβιστος}, and compare πρεῖγυς. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]