Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόχρηστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόχρηστος φιλόχρηστον

Structure: φιλοχρηστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving goodness or honesty

Examples

  • τό τε φιλόχρηστον καὶ μισοπόνηρον οὐκ ὀλίγον ἀπέφηνεν ἐκ τοῦ δήμου μέροσ ἐσόμενον, καὶ ἔτι πλεῖον τούτου, ὃ πρὸσ τὰσ τύχασ πάσχειν τι τὰσ ἀνθρωπίνασ καὶ ἐλεεῖν οἶδε τοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ ἀξιώμασιν, ὅταν εἰσ ταπεινὰ πέσωσιν αὐτῶν αἱ τύχαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 54 6:2)
  • ἔτι δ’ αὐτοῦ λέγοντοσ ὅσον μὲν ἦν τοῦ δημοτικοῦ μέρουσ ἐπιεικὲσ καὶ φιλόχρηστον ἀπολύειν ἐβόα τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ δι’ αἰσχύνησ ἐλάμβανεν, εἰ καὶ δίκην ὑπεῖχε τὴν ἀρχὴν περὶ τοιαύτησ αἰτίασ ἀνὴρ τοσαυτάκισ ὑπεριδὼν τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῆσ ἕνεκα τῆσ ἁπάντων φυλακῆσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 62 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. loving goodness or honesty

Related

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

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