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φι^λό-κα^λος , ον,
A.loving the beautiful (both of personal and moral beauty), loving beauty and goodness, Pl.Phdr.248d, Criti.111e, Com.Adesp. Oxy.1239.18, etc.; “τὸ φ.” Plu.2.61d, 1026d.
2. fond of effect and elegance, X.Cyr.1.3.3; φ. περὶ ὅπλα ib.2.1.22; “τὰ περὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα φ.” Isoc.1.26, cf. 10.57; of the peacock, Arist.HA488b24. Adv., “-λως ἔχειν περί τι” J.AJ12.2.1, cf. Gal.14.218, etc.: Comp. “-καλώτερον κοπρίσαι” more elaborately, Gp.5.26.10.
II. fond of honour, seeking honour, “φιλοκαλώτεροι ἐν τοῖς κινδύνοις” X.Smp.4.15, cf. Arist.EN 1125b12, 1179b9.
III. κατὰ τὸ φ. πειραθέντα κατανοῆσαι to see by working out the calculation, Iamb. in Nic.p.124 P.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Isocrates, Helen, 57
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 26
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 12.2.1
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 248d
    • Plato, Critias, 111e
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.3.3
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.1.22
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 4.15
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