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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

  • "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)
  • αἴτιον δὲ τούτων ἦν αὐτὸ τὸ Βροῦτον ἐπιεικῆ καὶ φιλόφρονα ἐσ ἅπαντασ εἶναι καὶ ἀνόμοιον Κασσίῳ, αὐστηρῷ καὶ ἀρχικῷ περὶ πάντα γεγενημένῳ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 16 7:5)
  • τοῖσ μὲν γὰρ περὶ τὸν Φιλόφρονα καὶ Θεαίδητον οὐδαμῶσ ἤρεσκε προσδέχεσθαι τὴν τοιαύτην ἐπιπλοκήν, τοῖσ δὲ περὶ τὸν Δείνωνα καὶ Πολυάρατον ἤρεσκε. (Polybius, Histories, book 27, b. olymp. 152, 2. i. bellum persicum 2:1)
  • ἐκφανέστατα γὰρ ἐδόκουν στασιάζειν [ἐν τῇ Ῥόδῳ] οἱ μὲν περὶ τὸν Ἀγαθάγητον καὶ Φιλόφρονα καὶ Ῥοδοφῶντα καὶ Θεαίδητον, ἀπερειδόμενοι πάσασ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ ἐπὶ Ῥωμαίουσ, οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Δείνωνα καὶ Πολυάρατον ἐπὶ Περσέα καὶ Μακεδόνασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 28, chapter 2 3:1)
  • οἱ περὶ τὸν Φιλόφρονα καὶ Θεαίδητον ἐπιλαβόμενοι τῆσ ἀφορμῆσ ταύτησ ἐξειργάζοντο τἀκόλουθα, φάσκοντεσ δεῖν ἐκπέμπειν πρεσβευτὰσ πρὸσ τὴν σύγκλητον καὶ τὸν Κόιντον Μάρκιον τὸν ὕπατον καὶ πρὸσ Γάιον τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ. (Polybius, Histories, book 28, chapter 16 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ παρασκευαστικὸν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρή, καὶ ποριστικὸν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων τοῖσ στρατιώταισ, καὶ μηχανικὸν καὶ ἐργαστικὸν καὶ ἐπιμελῆ καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ ἀγχίνουν, καὶ φιλόφρονά τε καὶ ὠμόν, καὶ ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον, καὶ φυλακτικόν τε καὶ κλέπτην, καὶ προετικὸν καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ φιλόδωρον καὶ πλεονέκτην καὶ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἐπιθετικόν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ φύσει καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δεῖ τὸν εὖ στρατηγήσοντα ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 7:2)

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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