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βρα^δύς , εῖα, ύ: Comp.
A.“βραδύτερος” Th.4.8; metath. “βαρδύτερος” Theoc.29.30; “βραδίων” Artem.1.70: Sup. “βραδύτατος” Ar.Fr.357, also βράδιστος (metath. “βάρδιστος” Il.23.310,530, Doroth(?).ap.Heph. Astr.3.30) Aret.SD1.6, “βραδίστατος” Ael.Fr.325 :—slow, “κιχάνει τοι β. ὠκύν” Od.8.329, etc.: c. inf., ἀλλά τοι ἵπποι βάρδιστοι θείειν slowest at running, Il.23.310; “β. λέγειν” E.HF237, etc.; τὸ β. delay, Pl.Lg. 766e. Adv. “βραδέως, χωρεῖν” Th.5.70; “θεῖν” Pl.Prt.336a, etc.: Comp. “-ύτερον” Hp.Prog.22, Pl.Tht.190a; “βραδυτέρως” Aen.Tact.16.12; “βράδι^ον” Hes.Op.528, Sor.1.117 (condemned by Luc.Sol.7): Sup. “-ύτατα” Pl.Ti.39b.
2. of the mind, dull, sluggish, “ἐπιλήσμων καί β.” Ar.Nu.129; opp. ἀγχίνους, Pl.Phdr.239a; βράδιστοι τὴν γνώμην Aret.l.c.: c. inf., “προνοῆσαι βραδεῖς” Th.3.38; τὸ β. καὶ μέλλον slowness and deliberation, Th.1.84. Adv. βραδέως, βουλεύεσθαι ib.78; “β. ὀλίγην ὀργὴν ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.Phdr.233c.
3. in Egypt, of illiterates, βραδέως, βραδύτερον γράφειν, PTeb.316.101 (i A. D.), PRyl.173.13 (i A. D.); also “βραδέα γράφουσα” BGU446.19 (ii A. D.).
II. of Time, tardy, late, “σὺν χρόνῳ β. μολών” S.Tr.395, cf. Th.7.43; “βραδεῖαν . . ὁδὸν πέμπων” S.Aj.738. Adv., “ἕως βραδέως ἦν τῆς ἡμέρας” D.L.2.139: neut. as Adv., “ὀψὲ καὶ βραδὺ τῆς ἡλικίας” Hld.2.29; “βράδιον ἀπογαλακτίζειν” Sor. l.c.
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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