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φιλόφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόφρων φιλόφρονος

Structure: φιλοφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. kindly minded, kindly, friendly, affable, kindly, kindly minded

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • φησὶν γὰρ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Μελῶν ὁ Μεγίστησ δ’ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπείτε στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 11 4:3)
  • ὁ γοῦν Ἀνακρέων φησίν ὁ Μεγίστησ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπειδὴ στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 14 2:2)
  • "ἀμφὶ δὲ οἱ δολόεντα φιλόφρονα χεῦεν ὄνειρα, πᾶν ἐνταῦθα πειθομένῃ τὸ καλὸν εἶναι καὶ τίμιον, ἂν μὴ τύχῃ θείου καὶ σώφρονοσ Ἔρωτοσ ἰατροῦ καὶ σωτῆροσ καὶ ἡγεμόνοσ ὃσ διὰ σωμάτων ἀφικόμενοσ ἀγωγὸσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐξ Αἵδου καί τὸ ἀληθείασ πεδίον, οὗ τὸ πολὺ καὶ καθαρὸν καὶ ἀψευδὲσ ἵδρυται κάλλοσ, ἀσπάσασθαι καὶ συγγενέσθαι διὰ χρόνου ποθοῦντασ ἐξαναφέρων καὶ ἀναπέμπων εὐμενὴσ οἱο͂ν ἐν τελετῇ παρέστη μυσταγωγόσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:16)
  • ὀργὴ,δὲ χάριτοσ καὶ χόλοσ εὐμενείασ καὶ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου καὶ φιλόφρονοσ τὸ δυσμενὲσ; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 22 3:1)
  • φιλόφρων γὰρ παρασαίνει βροτὸν εἰσ ἄρκυασ Ἄτα, τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὕπερθέν νιν ἄνατον ἐξαλύξαι. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 41)
  • οὐ φθίνει Κροίσου φιλόφρων ἀρετά· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 33:1)
  • ὡσ μὲν γὰρ ἄγαταί τε καὶ φιλεῖ τὸν ἐρώμενον θάλλουσα μορφῇ τε ἐλευθερίᾳ καὶ ἤθει αἰδήμονί τε καὶ γενναίῳ ψυχὴ εὐθὺσ ἐν τοῖσ ἥλιξιν ἡγεμονική τε ἅμα καὶ φιλόφρων οὖσα οὐδὲν ἐπιδεῖται λόγου· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. kindly minded

Related

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

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