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ἐντρυ^φ-άω ,
A.revel in, delight in, c. dat., “ἐξουσία” E.Fr.362.24; “γαμηλίῳ λέχει” Men.535.8; “ἡδοναῖς” D.S.19.71, cf. Luc.JTr.21; in good sense, “δικαιοσύνῃ” Ph.2.258; of persons, “Πελοπίδᾳ” Plu.Pel.30; “ἔν τινι” D.C.65.20; in bad sense, “ἐν ταῖς ἀγάπαις” 2 Ep.Pet.2.13; κόμαι ἀνέμοις ἐνετρύφων it was playing in the wind, Chaerem.1.7: abs., X.HG4.1.30, Ph.1.666.
II. treat haughtily or contemptuously, “τινί” E.Cyc. 588, Plu.Them.18, Alciphr.1.35; exult over, “τινὸς συμφοραῖς” Jul.ad Ath.279c; “ἔν τινι” LXXHb.1.10: abs., Plu.Alc.23:—Pass., to be made a mock of, Id.Lys.6, Caes.64.
III. use or abuse at pleasure, τοῖς νόμοις, τοῖς συνοῦσι, Luc.Abd.10, Merc.Cond.35,al.
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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