The headword is a comparative adjective, in the masculine nominative singular, deriving from the noun pre/sbus, -ews, -eos, o( (old man); see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius pi1155 Theodoridis. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms V reads timiw/tatos, most honored.]
[2] Aelian fr. 321 Hercher (318 Domingo-Forasté); more fully at rho 53.
[3] Adler reports that ms V replaces timiwte/ran with teleiote/ran, more perfect.
[4] Quotation -- again in part under pi 2258 -- unidentifiable; (Adler suggests Aelian.) [Adler notes that the quotation was omitted by ms F and that mss GV transmit w)/mosen, third person singular (agreeing with the subject stratia/), rather than the plural given here.]