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φι^λάνθρωπ-ος , ον,
A.loving mankind, humane, benevolent, tender-hearted, and, in weaker sense, kind, courteous, Epich.[274]; “φ. καὶ φιλαθήναιος καὶ φιλόσοφος” Isoc.Ep. 5.2; “φ. καὶ φιλόπολις” Id.2.15; “δημοτικὸς καὶ φ.” X.Mem.1.2.60; “ψυχὴν φιλανθρωπότατος” Id.Cyr.1.2.1; φ. δὲ παύεσθαι τρόπου, of Prometheus, A.Pr.11, cf. 28; of animals that attach themselves to men, as of dogs, gentle, X.Cyn.6.25; of horses, Id.Eq.2.3; τὸ φιλάνθρωπον, = φιλανθρωπία, Plu.Cat.Ma.3, etc.; “τὸ φ. καὶ μεταδοτικόν” Phld.Oec.p.54J.; τὰ φιλάνθρωπα humane treatment, “τῶν φ. τυχεῖν” PCair.Zen.638.13 (iii B. C.); kindnesses, Plb.10.38.3, 12.5.3, etc.
2. of the gods, loving men, Pl.Smp.189c (Sup.), Lg.713d, Plu.Num.4.
II. of things, humane, humanizing, “χάρις δικαία καὶ φ.” E.Fr.953.41; “γεωργία” X.Oec.19.17; “ψηφίσματα” Id.Vect.3.6; “λόγοι” D.45.4; τρόπος, in Music, Plu.2.1135c, etc.; of wines, generous, Id.Cleom.13 (Comp.), cf. 2.680b.
2. appealing to human feeling, of situations, Arist.Po.1452b38, al. (less prob., satisfying the sense of poetic justice).
3. Medic., of diet, generous, τροφὴ -οτέρα, opp. ὀλίγη, Gal.1.211; but of a medical treatise, popular, Id.15.551 (Comp.).
III. φιλάνθρωπα, τά, concessions, grants, privileges, immunities, OGI221.14 (Ilium, iii B. C.), PCair.Zen.37.11 (iii B. C.), SIG548.3 (Delph., iii B. C.), Plb.4.26.8, UPZ162v 22, al. (ii B. C.), OGI331.42 (Pergam., ii B. C.), Epist.Jul.Caes. ap. J.AJ14.10.2, D.S.32.4, etc.; Thess. φιλάνθρουπα IG9(2).517.16 (Larissa, iii B. C.).
b. sg., benefaction, endowment, gratuity, BGU1202.10 (i B. C.), Mon.Anc.Gr.9.10, etc.
c. sg., letter expressing friendly feelings, PSI4.439.32, PCair.Zen.56.10 (both iii B. C.).
IV. Adv., “-ως τινὶ κεχρῆσθαι” D.19.225; “φ. διακεῖσθαι πρός τινα” Plb.1.68.13; “φ. καὶ δημοτικῶς” D.24.24; “θεοφιλῶς καὶ φ.” Isoc.9.43, cf. 15.132, Phld. Herc.1251.14, etc.: Sup. “-ότατα” D.24.191, D.C.69.2.
V. φι^λάνθρωπ-ον , τό, = ἀπαρίνη, Dsc.3.90, Plin.HN24.176; φιλανθρώπειος βοτάνη in Archig. ap. Gal.12.574.
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 11
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 28
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1452b.38
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 225
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 191
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 24
    • Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 4
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 132
    • Isocrates, To Nicocles, 15
    • Isocrates, Evagoras, 43
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 14.10.2
    • Plato, Laws, 713d
    • Plato, Symposium, 189c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.2.1
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.2.60
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 2.3
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.25
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 3.6
    • Xenophon, Economics, 19.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.38.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.5.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.68.13
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.26.8
    • Isocrates, Ad Alexandrum, 2
    • Plutarch, Numa, 4
    • Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 3
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 69.2
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