Strong G2078ἔσχατος
last/least
- Transliteration
- eschatos
- Pronunciation
- es'-khat-os
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
A superlative probably from G2192 (in the sense of contiguity);
farthest final (of place or time): - ends of last latter end lowest uttermost.
farthest final (of place or time): - ends of last latter end lowest uttermost.
Detailed definition
ἔσχατος, -η, -ον
[in LXX chiefly for אַחֲרִית אַחֲרוֹן;]
last, utmost, extreme;
__(a) of place: of the lowest or least honoured place, Luk.14:9-10; τ. ἔσχατον, with genitive part., Act.1:8 13:47;
__(b) of time: Mat.20:12, 14, Mrk.12:6, 22, opposite to πρῶτος, Mat.20:8, 1Co.15:45, Rev.2:19, al.; τὰ ἔ. καὶ T. πρῶτα, Mat.12:45, Luk.11:26, 2Pe.2:20; of the Eternal, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔ., Rev.1:17 2:8 22:13; in phrases relating to the Messianic age and the consummation of the Kingdom of God: ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτου (-ων) τ. ἡμερῶν, Heb.1:2, 2Pe.3:3; τ. χρόνων, 1Pe.1:20; ἔ. ὥρα, 1Jn.2:18; ἐπ᾽ ἐ. χόνου, Ju 18; ἐν ἐ. ἡμέραις, Act.2:17, Jas.5:3, 2Ti.3:1; neut., ἔσχατον, as adv., Mrk.12:22, 1Co.15:8;
__(with) of rank: Mrk.9:35, 1Co.4:9
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for אַחֲרִית אַחֲרוֹן;]
last, utmost, extreme;
__(a) of place: of the lowest or least honoured place, Luk.14:9-10; τ. ἔσχατον, with genitive part., Act.1:8 13:47;
__(b) of time: Mat.20:12, 14, Mrk.12:6, 22, opposite to πρῶτος, Mat.20:8, 1Co.15:45, Rev.2:19, al.; τὰ ἔ. καὶ T. πρῶτα, Mat.12:45, Luk.11:26, 2Pe.2:20; of the Eternal, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔ., Rev.1:17 2:8 22:13; in phrases relating to the Messianic age and the consummation of the Kingdom of God: ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτου (-ων) τ. ἡμερῶν, Heb.1:2, 2Pe.3:3; τ. χρόνων, 1Pe.1:20; ἔ. ὥρα, 1Jn.2:18; ἐπ᾽ ἐ. χόνου, Ju 18; ἐν ἐ. ἡμέραις, Act.2:17, Jas.5:3, 2Ti.3:1; neut., ἔσχατον, as adv., Mrk.12:22, 1Co.15:8;
__(with) of rank: Mrk.9:35, 1Co.4:9
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2078 appears in 49 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- last45
- end2
- lowest2
- uttermost2
- unto1
First verses
- Matthew 5:26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
- Matthew 12:45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
- Matthew 19:30But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
- Matthew 20:8So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
- Matthew 20:12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
- Matthew 20:14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
- Matthew 20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Mark 9:35And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
- Mark 10:31But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
- Mark 12:6Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
- Mark 12:22And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
- Luke 11:26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
- Luke 12:59I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
- Luke 13:30And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
- Luke 14:9And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
- Luke 14:10But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
- John 6:39And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
- John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἔσχᾰτος, η, ον,
also ος, ον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 625)(probably from ἐκ, ἐξ, perhaps eĝhzκατος (compare ἐχθός) like{ἔγ-κατα}):
I of Space, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], farthest, uttermost, extreme, θάλαμος ἔ. the hindmost chamber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.9; ἔσχατοι ἄλλων)]at the end of the lines, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.434, compare 8.225)]; ἔσχατοι ἀνδρῶν, of the Aethiopians, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.23; οἰκέομεν..ἔσχατοι 6.205; ἐσχάτη τῶν οἰκεομένων ἡ Ἰνδική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, etc.; τὸ ἔ. τῆς ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.5; ὑπ᾽..ἐσχάτην στήλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 720)]; τάξις ἐ. the farthest part of the army, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 4: _plural_, ἔσχατα γαίης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 731; τὰ ἔ. τῶν στρατοπέδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.96; ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα χθονός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956; αἱ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα τοῦ ἄστεως οἰκίαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.95)]; ἐξ ἐσχάτων ἐς ἔσχατα ἀπικέσθαι from end to end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.100, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.6; παρ᾽ ἔσχατα λίμνης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.106)]:—in various senses, uppermost, ἐ. πυρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 900)]; lowest, deepest, ἀΐδας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.52; ἅλς “Anthologia Graeca” 13.27 (3rd c.BC: Phalaecus Epigrammaticus))]; innermost, σάρκες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1053)]; last, hindmost, ἤλαυνε δ᾽ ἔ. [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 734)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ at the close of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 68.54 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
I.2 of Degree, uttermost, highest, τὸ ἔ. κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.113; ἀνορέαι ἔ. [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).11; σοφία 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.88)]; of misfortunes, sufferings, etc., utmost, last, worst, πόνος, ἀδικία, κίνδυνοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247b, “R.” 361a, “Grg.” 511d; ὀδύναι αἱ ἔ. [prev. author] “Prt.” 354b)]; δῆμος ἔ. extreme democracy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a2.)]
I.2.b substantive, τὸ ἔ., τὰ ἔ., the utmost, ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.52; τετρῦσθαι ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ [prev. author] 1.22; without _Article_, ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα βαίνεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 217 (Lyric poetry); προβᾶσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους [prev. author] “Ant.” 853 (Lyric poetry); ἐπ᾽ ἔ. ἐλθεῖν ἀηδίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, compare “R.” 361d, etc.; ὃ πάντων κακῶν ἔσχατόν ἐστι, τοῦτο πάσχει [prev. author] “Phd.” 83c; οἱ τὰ ἔ. πεποιηκότες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2)]; ζημιοῦσθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐ., Latin extremis suppliciis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]; ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά worst of possible evils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 65, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 178; εἰς τὰ ἔ. ἐληλυθώς “UPZ” 60.12 (2nd c.BC))]: comparative οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἐσχάτου -ώτερον εἴη ἄν τι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1055a20: _superlative_ -ώτατος)] falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.49, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 51; τὰ -ώτατα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ τοῦ καθ᾽ Ὅμηρον ἀγαθοῦ βασιλέως” p.320.)]
I.3 of Persons, lowest, meanest, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 8.18, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.43: proverbial, οὐδείς, οὐδ᾽ ὁ Μυσῶν ἔ.,)] i.e. the meanest of mankind,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Magnes 5, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 77; in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 209b)] it seems to mean the remotest of mankind, compare πρὸς ἐσχάτην Μυσῶν variant in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“App.Prov.” 2.85 (παρὰ τοῖς ἐ. τῆς Μυσίας 15th c.AD: Apostolius Paroemiographus 8.1); similarly οὐδὲ τὸν ἔσχατον Καρῶν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.871b.)]
I.4 of Time, last, ἐς τὸ ἔ. to the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46)]; ἔ. πλόος, ναυτιλίαι, the end of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.28, “N.” 3.22)]; ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας over the last scion of the race, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 599 (Lyric poetry))]; ἔ. Ἑλλήνων, Ῥωμαίων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 1, “Brut.” 44: _neuter_ ἔσχατον,)] as adverb, for the last time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1550)]; finally, best of all, [NT (NT.1Cor.15.8)]; at the latest, ἔ. ἐν τρισὶ μησίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1219.11 (Gambreion, 3rd c.BC),compare “Inscription Prien.” 4.45 (4th c.BC))]; εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην at the last, [LXX (LXX.Eccl.1.11)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ[LXX (LXX.2Ki.24.25, +others:)] substantive ἐσχάτη, ἡ, end, οὐχ ἕξεις ἐ. καλήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” 21.4, compare 40.3.)]
I.5 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὰ ἔ.)] are the last or lowest species, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1059b26, or)]individuals, [Refs ([prev. work]998b16,compare “Anthologia Graeca” 0.96b12, +others; τὸ ἔ. ἄτομον “Metaphorical” 1058b10.)]
I.5.b ὁ ἔ. ὅρος the minor term of a syllogism, [Refs (“EN” 1147b14.)]
I.5.c last step in geometrical analysis or ultimate condition of action, τὸ ἔ. ἀρχὴ τῆς πράξεως [Refs (“de An.” 433a16.)]
II adverb -τως to the uttermost, exceedingly, πῦρ ἐ. καίει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 8; ἐ. διαμάχεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 613a11; ἐ. φιλοπόλεμος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.1; φοβοῦμαί σ᾽ ἐ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 912, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.31U.)]
II.b -τως διακεῖσθαι to be at the last extremity, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.48; ἔχειν NT.Mark.5.23; ἀπορεῖν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.72J.)]
II.2 so ἐς τὸ ἔ.,=ἐσχάτως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229; εἰς τὰ ἔ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33; εἰς τὰ ἔ. μάλα [prev. author] “Lac.” 1.2; τὸ ἔ.)]finally, in the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473c)]; but, τὸ ἔ. what is worst of all, [Refs ([prev. work] 508d.)]
also ος, ον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 625)(probably from ἐκ, ἐξ, perhaps eĝhzκατος (compare ἐχθός) like{ἔγ-κατα}):
I of Space, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], farthest, uttermost, extreme, θάλαμος ἔ. the hindmost chamber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.9; ἔσχατοι ἄλλων)]at the end of the lines, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.434, compare 8.225)]; ἔσχατοι ἀνδρῶν, of the Aethiopians, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.23; οἰκέομεν..ἔσχατοι 6.205; ἐσχάτη τῶν οἰκεομένων ἡ Ἰνδική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, etc.; τὸ ἔ. τῆς ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.5; ὑπ᾽..ἐσχάτην στήλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 720)]; τάξις ἐ. the farthest part of the army, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 4: _plural_, ἔσχατα γαίης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 731; τὰ ἔ. τῶν στρατοπέδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.96; ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα χθονός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956; αἱ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα τοῦ ἄστεως οἰκίαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.95)]; ἐξ ἐσχάτων ἐς ἔσχατα ἀπικέσθαι from end to end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.100, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.6; παρ᾽ ἔσχατα λίμνης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.106)]:—in various senses, uppermost, ἐ. πυρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 900)]; lowest, deepest, ἀΐδας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.52; ἅλς “Anthologia Graeca” 13.27 (3rd c.BC: Phalaecus Epigrammaticus))]; innermost, σάρκες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1053)]; last, hindmost, ἤλαυνε δ᾽ ἔ. [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 734)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ at the close of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 68.54 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
I.2 of Degree, uttermost, highest, τὸ ἔ. κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.113; ἀνορέαι ἔ. [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).11; σοφία 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.88)]; of misfortunes, sufferings, etc., utmost, last, worst, πόνος, ἀδικία, κίνδυνοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247b, “R.” 361a, “Grg.” 511d; ὀδύναι αἱ ἔ. [prev. author] “Prt.” 354b)]; δῆμος ἔ. extreme democracy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a2.)]
I.2.b substantive, τὸ ἔ., τὰ ἔ., the utmost, ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.52; τετρῦσθαι ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ [prev. author] 1.22; without _Article_, ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα βαίνεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 217 (Lyric poetry); προβᾶσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους [prev. author] “Ant.” 853 (Lyric poetry); ἐπ᾽ ἔ. ἐλθεῖν ἀηδίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, compare “R.” 361d, etc.; ὃ πάντων κακῶν ἔσχατόν ἐστι, τοῦτο πάσχει [prev. author] “Phd.” 83c; οἱ τὰ ἔ. πεποιηκότες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2)]; ζημιοῦσθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐ., Latin extremis suppliciis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]; ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά worst of possible evils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 65, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 178; εἰς τὰ ἔ. ἐληλυθώς “UPZ” 60.12 (2nd c.BC))]: comparative οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἐσχάτου -ώτερον εἴη ἄν τι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1055a20: _superlative_ -ώτατος)] falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.49, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 51; τὰ -ώτατα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ τοῦ καθ᾽ Ὅμηρον ἀγαθοῦ βασιλέως” p.320.)]
I.3 of Persons, lowest, meanest, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 8.18, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.43: proverbial, οὐδείς, οὐδ᾽ ὁ Μυσῶν ἔ.,)] i.e. the meanest of mankind,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Magnes 5, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 77; in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 209b)] it seems to mean the remotest of mankind, compare πρὸς ἐσχάτην Μυσῶν variant in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“App.Prov.” 2.85 (παρὰ τοῖς ἐ. τῆς Μυσίας 15th c.AD: Apostolius Paroemiographus 8.1); similarly οὐδὲ τὸν ἔσχατον Καρῶν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.871b.)]
I.4 of Time, last, ἐς τὸ ἔ. to the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46)]; ἔ. πλόος, ναυτιλίαι, the end of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.28, “N.” 3.22)]; ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας over the last scion of the race, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 599 (Lyric poetry))]; ἔ. Ἑλλήνων, Ῥωμαίων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 1, “Brut.” 44: _neuter_ ἔσχατον,)] as adverb, for the last time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1550)]; finally, best of all, [NT (NT.1Cor.15.8)]; at the latest, ἔ. ἐν τρισὶ μησίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1219.11 (Gambreion, 3rd c.BC),compare “Inscription Prien.” 4.45 (4th c.BC))]; εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην at the last, [LXX (LXX.Eccl.1.11)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ[LXX (LXX.2Ki.24.25, +others:)] substantive ἐσχάτη, ἡ, end, οὐχ ἕξεις ἐ. καλήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” 21.4, compare 40.3.)]
I.5 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὰ ἔ.)] are the last or lowest species, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1059b26, or)]individuals, [Refs ([prev. work]998b16,compare “Anthologia Graeca” 0.96b12, +others; τὸ ἔ. ἄτομον “Metaphorical” 1058b10.)]
I.5.b ὁ ἔ. ὅρος the minor term of a syllogism, [Refs (“EN” 1147b14.)]
I.5.c last step in geometrical analysis or ultimate condition of action, τὸ ἔ. ἀρχὴ τῆς πράξεως [Refs (“de An.” 433a16.)]
II adverb -τως to the uttermost, exceedingly, πῦρ ἐ. καίει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 8; ἐ. διαμάχεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 613a11; ἐ. φιλοπόλεμος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.1; φοβοῦμαί σ᾽ ἐ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 912, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.31U.)]
II.b -τως διακεῖσθαι to be at the last extremity, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.48; ἔχειν NT.Mark.5.23; ἀπορεῖν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.72J.)]
II.2 so ἐς τὸ ἔ.,=ἐσχάτως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229; εἰς τὰ ἔ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33; εἰς τὰ ἔ. μάλα [prev. author] “Lac.” 1.2; τὸ ἔ.)]finally, in the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473c)]; but, τὸ ἔ. what is worst of all, [Refs ([prev. work] 508d.)]