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φίλαυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλαυτος φίλαυτον

Structure: φιλαυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au(tou=

Sense

  1. loving oneself

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ ὅμοιον καὶ τὸ συγγενὲσ ἑαυτῷ ἡδὺ ἅπαν, μάλιστα δὲ αὐτὸσ πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν ἕκαστοσ τοῦτο πέπονθεν, ἀνάγκη πάντασ φιλαύτουσ εἶναι ἢ μᾶλλον ἢ ἧττον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 26:1)
  • καὶ ὡσ ἐν αἰσχρῷ φιλαύτουσ ἀποκαλοῦσι, δοκεῖ τε ὁ μὲν φαῦλοσ ἑαυτοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττειν, καὶ ὅσῳ ἂν μοχθηρότεροσ ᾖ, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ‐ ἐγκαλοῦσι δὴ αὐτῷ οἱο͂ν ὅτι οὐδὲν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ πράττει ‐ ὁ δ’ ἐπιεικὴσ διὰ τὸ καλόν, καὶ ὅσῳ ἂν βελτίων ᾖ, μᾶλλον διὰ τὸ καλόν, καὶ φίλου ἕνεκα, τὸ δ’ αὑτοῦ παρίησιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 83:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν εἰσ ὄνειδοσ ἄγοντεσ αὐτὸ φιλαύτουσ καλοῦσι τοὺσ ἑαυτοῖσ ἀπονέμοντασ τὸ πλεῖον ἐν χρήμασι καὶ τιμαῖσ καὶ ἡδοναῖσ ταῖσ σωματικαῖσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 89:1)
  • ὅτι δὲ τοὺσ τὰ τοιαῦθ’ αὑτοῖσ ἀπονέμοντασ εἰώθασι λέγειν οἱ πολλοὶ φιλαύτουσ, οὐκ ἄδηλον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 90:4)
  • καὶ ἔγωγε ταύτησ ἐμοὶ τῆσ σκέψεωσ ἐπιτραπείσησ ἐμαυτὸν ἂν τῆσ τιμῆσ ἄξιον ἔκρινα διά τε τὸ φύσει πάντασ εἶναι φιλαύτουσ, καὶ ὅτι πολλὰ ἐμαυτῷ καμόντι περὶ σωτηρίασ τῆσ ὑμετέρασ σύνοιδα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 237:1)

Synonyms

  1. loving oneself

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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