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φι^λανθρωπ-ία , ἡ,
A.humanity, benevolence, kind-heartedness, humane feeling, or, in a weaker sense, kindliness, courtesy,
I. of men, Hp.Praec. 6, Pl.Euthphr.3d, X.Cyr.1.4.1, Act.Ap.28.2, etc.; opp. σεμνότης, Isoc. 15.133; opp. φθόνος, D.20.165; opp. ὠμότης, ib.109; joined with εὔνοια, Isoc.5.114, D.18.5; with πραότης, Isoc.5.116; with χρηστότης, Iamb. ap. Stob.4.5.76; “φ. λόγων” courtesy, D.18.298; τῆς παρὰ τουτωνὶ τιμῆς καὶ φ. ib.209; “φ. διὰ τῶν λόγων” Plb.28.17.11; “φ. προσάγειν τινί” Id.1.81.8; φ. εἰς or πρὸς τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους, ib.79.8, 11; ὑπὸ φιλανθρωπίας Pl.l. c.; “μετὰ φ.” Isoc.15 l. c.; clemency, X.Cyr.7.5.73; so “φιλανθρωπίᾳ” Id.Ages.1.22; the intercourse of lovers, Aeschin.1.171: pl., acts of kindness, courtesies, D.8.70, 25.86, Plb.36.17.13, Phld.Rh.2.160 S., etc.
b. ἡ σὴ φ. as a form of address, your Clemency, PRyl.296 (ii A. D.), etc.
2. of God, love to man, Ep. Tit.3.4, al.
II. of things, ἡ τοῦ ὀνόματος (i. e. νόμος） φ. its mildness, D.24.156; ἡ φ. τῆς τέχνης, of agriculture, X.Oec.15.4, cf. Aeschin.2.15; χώρα πάσης φ. ἐστερημένη, of a desert country, D.S. 17.50; in disease, mild symptoms, Gal.19.219.
III. concession, privilege, UPZ162 vii 21 (ii B. C.), OGI139.20 (Egypt, ii B. C.), Rev.Phil.10 (1936).253 (Ilium); θεία φ. imperial grant, SIG888.102 (Scaptopara, iii A. D.).
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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