A.kindly disposed, friendly, “Κροίσου φ. ἀρετά” Pi.P.1.94; φ. Ἡσυχία ib.8.1; “φ. σαίνουσα . . Ἄτα” A.Pers. 97 (lyr.); “φ. γένος” E.IT1061; “τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρὴ φ. καὶ ὠμόν” X.Mem.3.1.6, cf. Smp.8.16; φιλοφρονέστατοι, of the Athenians, Id.Mem.3.5.3; “φ. πρός τινα” Phld.Lib.p.35 O.; τὸ φ., = φιλοφροσύνη, Plu. 2.1102e. Adv. -νως, ἀσπάζεσθαί, δέξασθαί, δέκεσθαί τινα to greet kindly, welcome, Hdt.2.121.δ́, 3.13, 5.18, cf. S.Aj.751; φ. ἔχειν πρὸς ἀλλήλους, πρὸς τὸ συγγενὲς θεῖον, to be kindly minded towards . ., X. Cyr.3.3.10, Pl.Criti.120e; φ. βλέπειν to wear a kind, friendly look, X. Mem.3.10.4; “φ. ὑπάρχει τᾷ πόλει” Supp.Epigr.2.277.6 (Delph., ii B. C.): Comp. “-εστέρως ἔχειν τὰ ὄμματα” X.Smp.1.10.
φι^λό-φρων , ον, gen. ονος, (φρήν)
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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