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φι^λοσοφ-έω , pf.
A.“πεφιλοσόφηκα” X.Cyr.6.1.41, D.48.49:—love knowledge, pursue it, φιλοσοφέων γῆν πολλὴν . . ἐπελήλυθας (sc. Solon) Hdt. 1.30; “φιλοσοφοῦμεν ἄνευ μαλακίας” Th.2.40; “φιλοσοφήσετε καὶ σκέψεσθε τί . .” Isoc.8.116, cf. 12.236; “θεῶν οὐδεὶς φιλοσοφεῖ οὐδ᾽ ἐπιθυμεῖ σοφὸς γενέσθαι, ἔστι γάρ” Pl.Smp.204a; ὑπέλαβον φιλοσοφοῦντά με δεῖν ζῆν, says Socrates, Id.Ap.28e; “φ. περὶ τῆς ἀληθείας” Arist.Metaph.983b2; “περὶ τοὺς ποιητάς” Isoc.15.45, cf. Arist.Pol.1279b13; “ὑπέρ τινος” Luc. Am.31; “διὰ τὸ θαυμάζειν οἱ ἄνθρωποι . . ἤρξαντο φιλοσοφεῖν” Arist.Metaph.982b12; “φιλοσοφεῖν λέγεται καὶ τὸ ζητεῖν . . εἴτε χρὴ φιλοσοφεῖν εἴτε καὶ μή” Id.Fr.51; “φ. γνησίως τε καὶ ἱκανῶς” Pl.R.473d; “ἀδόλως” Id.Phdr. 249a; “καθαρῶς τε καὶ δικαίως” Id.Sph.253e; “ὀρθῶς” Id.Phd.67e; “ὑγιῶς” Id.R.619d.
b. in bad sense, quibble, “περί τινος” Lys.8.11.
2. teach philosophy, “οἱ παιδεύοντες καὶ φιλοσοφοῦντες” Isoc.3.9, cf. Plu. 2.192a; νουθετεῖς καὶ φιλοσοφεῖς you are lecturing me, ib.69b.
3. lead a wellregulated life, Gal.5.462.
II. c. acc., discuss, investigate, study, “μελετᾶν καὶ φ. τι” Isoc.8.5; φιλοσοφεῖν φιλοσοφίαν δι᾽ ἧς . . pursue a philosophy . . , X.Mem.4.2.23; φιλοσοφίαν καινὴν . . οὗτος φ. (sc. Zeno) Philem.85; “τὴν πολιτικὴν φ.” Arist.EN1152b2; “πρὸς τὴν ὀλιγοσιτίαν πολλὰ πεφιλοσόφηκεν ὁ νομοθέτης” Id.Pol.1272a22; “φ. τὰ Στωικά” S.E.P. 1.235; “τὰ τοῦ βίου πράγματα” D.H.Rh.11.2; treat scientifically, “θαλάσσας” Philostr.VA4.24; metaph., φ. ἡ γραφὴ τὰ τῶν μύθων σώματα painting represents truly, Philostr.Im.1.3:—Pass., to be examined scientifically, Plu.Caes.59; “τὰ φιλοσοφούμενα” subjects of speculation, Cic.Fam.11.27.5, Philostr.VS1 Prooem., D.L.4.49.
2. generally, study, work at a thing, “φ. λόγον” Isoc.4.6; “ὅσοι φιλοσοφοῦντες ἐκμοχθοῦσί τι” Trag.Adesp.522.
3. devise ingeniously, contrive, φ. τοῦτο, ὅπως . . Lys.24.10, Isoc.15.121, Men.242; οὕτω πεφιλοσόφηκεν ὥστε . . D. l. c.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 11.27.5
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.30
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 236
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 121
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    • Isocrates, On the Peace, 116
    • Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension, 10
    • Lysias, Accusation of Calumny, 11
    • Plato, Republic, 473d
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    • Plato, Phaedo, 67e
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    • Plato, Sophist, 253e
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    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.23
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 59
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    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1
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