Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κακοφραδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακοφραδής κακοφραδές

Structure: κακοφραδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fra/zomai

Sense

  1. bad in counsel

Examples

  • κέντρον δ’ ἄλλοσ ὡσ ἐγὼ λαβών,κακοφραδήσ τε καὶ φιλοκτήμων ἀνήρ,οὐκ ἂν κατέσχε δῆμον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 12 4:8)
  • αἰᾶν νεῖκοσ ἄριστε, κακοφραδέσ καὶ Ἰδομενεῦ, τί πάροσ λαβρεύεαι; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 13 20:1)
  • ἔρροισ, ὦ κακόμαντι, κακοφραδέσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 15:21)
  • κέντρον δ’ ἄλλοσ ὡσ ἐγὼ λαβών, κακοφραδήσ τε καὶ φιλοκτήμων ἀνήρ, οὐκ ἂν κατέσχε δῆμον· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , <*/g Ia/mbwn>9)
  • Αἰᾶν νεῖκοσ ἄριστε κακοφραδὲσ ἄλλά τε πάντα δεύεαι Ἀργείων, ὅτι τοι νόοσ ἐστὶν ἀπηνήσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 44:2)
  • κέντρον δ’ ἄλλοσ ὡσ ἐγὼ λαβὼν κακοφραδήσ τε καὶ φιλοκτήμων ἀνὴρ οὐκ ἂν κατέσχε θυμόν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 33:14)

Synonyms

  1. bad in counsel

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

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