Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, φρόνιμ-ος

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III. sensible, prudent, opp. ἄφρων, Gorg. Fr.6; “ψυχή” Pl.Sph.247a; opp.ἀνόητος, Isoc.2.14 (Comp.); “τὸν φρόνιμον ζητοῦντας . . ὥσπερ ἀποδεδρακότα” Bato 2.3; “ὡς ἂν ὁ φ. ὁρίσειε” Arist. EN1107a1, al.; φ. περί τινος possessing sagacity or discernment in a thing, X.Cyr.1.6.15, 21 (Comp.); “περί τι” Pl.Grg.490b (Comp.), Isoc. 12.161 (Comp.); “εἴς τι” Pl.Alc.1.125a; “ἐν τῷ σίτῳ φ. καὶ μέτριοι” X. Cyr.5.2.17.

2. of thoughts, acts, and the like , “φ. τι ἐργάσασθαι” Ar. Lys.42; φιλόπολις ἀρετή, φρόνιμος ib.547 (lyr.).

3. of birds as giving omens, “τοὺς ἄνωθεν φρονιμωτάτους οἰωνούς” S.El.1058 (lyr.).

b. sagacious, of animals, Pl.Plt.263d, Arist.HA488b15, PA648a8 (Comp.), 687a8 (Sup.), GA753a11（Comp.), al.

4. “τὸ φ.” practical wisdom, prudence, E.Fr.52.9 (lyr.), Pl.R.586d, al.; opp. τὸ ἄφρον, Id.Phdr.235e; “ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὸ φρονιμώτερον” X.Smp.8.14: pl., ἄπορος ἐπὶ φρόνιμα helpless in point of wisdom, S.OT692 (lyr.); “τὰ -ώτερα ποιεῖν” Isoc.15.211.

5. Adv. “-μως” Ar.Eq.1364, Av.1333 (lyr.), Pl.La.192e, etc.; opp. ἀλόγως, Isoc.3.9; “φ. ἔχειν” X.Cyr.3.3.57; “διακεῖσθαι” Isoc. 8.114: Comp. “φρονιμώτερον, διακεῖσθαι τῶν ἄλλων” Id.2.10; “-ωτέρως” Id.13.15: Sup. “-ώτατα, λέγειν” X.Ap.20.

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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- Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 42
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 547
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1107a.1
- Isocrates, To Nicocles, 10
- Isocrates, On the Peace, 114
- Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 161
- Isocrates, Against the Sophists, 15
- Isocrates, Antidosis, 211
- Isocrates, To Nicocles, 14
- Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 9
- Plato, Republic, 586d
- Plato, Sophist, 247a
- Plato, Statesman, 263d
- Plato, Phaedrus, 235e
- Plato, Laches, 192e
- Plato, Gorgias, 490b
- Sophocles, Ajax, 259
- Sophocles, Electra, 1058
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 692
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.6.7
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.3.57
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.6.15
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.2.17
- Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.3.56
- Xenophon, Symposium, 8.14
- Xenophon, Apology, 20

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