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βλάξ , βλα_κός, ὁ, ἡ,
A.stolid, stupid, Pl.Grg.488a; “β. καὶ ἠλίθιος” X.Cyr. 1.4.12; “β. καὶ ἄφρων” Arist.EE1247a18; “θεὸς κολάζει τοὺς βλᾶκας” X.Oec.8.16, cf. Plb. 16.22.5; “β. ἄνθρωπος” Heraclit.87: usually of persons, but β. ἵππος, opp. θυμοειδής, X.Eq.9.12: Comp. βλακότερος or “-ώτερος” Id.Mem.4.2.40: Sup. βλακότατος or -ώτατος (but -ίστατος ap.Ath.) ib.3.13.4.
II. name of a fish, ὃς ἐν τῷ συνουσιάζειν δυσαπολύτως ἔχει, Erot. s.v. βλακεύειν. (Perh. βλα_- < μλα_-, cf. Skt. ml[amacracute]yati 'become soft', μαλακός: Hsch., ἀπό τινος ἰχθύος δασώδους (leg. δυσώδους).)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plato, Gorgias, 488a
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.4.12
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.40
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 9.12
    • Xenophon, Economics, 8.16
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.22.5
    • Athenaeus, of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae, 3.13.4
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