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ἀρέσκ-εια [α^ρ], ἡ, （ἀρεσκεύομαι)
A.obsequiousness, Arist.EE1221a8, MM1192b30, Thphr.Char.5, Plb.31.26.5, Phld.Herc.1457.5, Polystr. p.16W.; “ἀ. βασιλέως” Plb.6.11a.7, cf.J.AJ18.8.7.
2. in pl., = δόξαι, ἀρέσκοντα, αἱ ἀ. τῶν πολλῶν, of false superstitions, Ph.2.191; τὰ ταῖς κεναῖς σοφιστῶν ἀρεσκήαις (sic) “ὑπεναντία” Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.73.
3. in good sense, “πρὸς θεὸν καὶ ἀρετήν” Ph.1.168; “ἡ εἰς τὸ πλῆθος ἀ.” Inscr.Prien.113.73 (i B.C.), cf. IPE2.5, Ep.Col.1.10; πρὸς “τὴν ἑτέρων ἀ. βιοῦν” Hld.10.14.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 18.8.7
    • New Testament, Colossians, 1.10
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 5
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.26.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.11a
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