A.nearer, nearest, “οὐδὲν ἡμῖν ἐστὶν ἔγγιον ἡμῶν αὐτῶν” Procl. in Alc.p.6C.; “ἔτη δέκα τὰ ἔγγιστα” IG7.2225.24 (Thisbe): neut. ἔγγιον, ἔγγιστα, as Adv., Hp.Vict.1.35 (also -υτότατα ibid.), 2.44, etc.; “ἐξ ἐγγίονος” App.BC4.108; τοὺς ἔγγιστα τῆς Ἀττικῆς τόπους Decr. ap. D.18.165; οἱ ἔγγιστα the next of kin, Antipho 4.4.1; ἔγγιστα approximately, of numbers, Autol.1.6, Vett.Val.153.21, etc.; αἱ ἔγγιστα τᾶς τοῦ ἀμβλυγώνου κώνου τομᾶς asymptotes of the hyperbola, Archim. Con.Sph.Praef.; of Time, next, forthcoming, “ἡ ἔγγιστα ἀρίθμησις” POxy.1258.7 (i A.D.).
ἐγγίων , ον, ἔγγιστος , η, ον, Comp. and Sup.Adj., formed from Adv. ἐγγύς:—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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