A.make delicate, treat delicately, μὴ γυναικὸς ἐν τρόποις ἐμὲ ἅβρυνε<*> A Ag. 919: deck out, “εἰς γάμον ἁβρῦναί τινα” AP6.281 (Leon.):—Med. or Pass., live delicately; hence, wax wanton, give oneself airs, “ἁβρύνεται γὰρ πᾶς τις εὖ πράσσων πλέον” A.Ag.1205, cf. S.OC1339; “ἐκαλλυνόμην τε καὶ ἡβρυνόμην ἄν” Pl.Ap.20c: c. dat. rei, pride, plume oneself on a thing, “οὐχ ἁβρύνομαι τῷδ᾽” E.IA858; “ἡβρύνετο τῷ βραδέως διαπράττειν” X.Ages.9.2; “οἷς ὁ τῶν γυναικῶν ἁβρύνεται βίος” Clearch.9.
ἁβρ-ύνω , (ἁβρός)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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