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φροντ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, (φρονέω)
A.thought, care, attention bestowed upon a person or thing, c. gen., “φροντίδ᾽ ἔχειν καμάτου” Simon.85.10, cf. E.Med.1301; παλαισμάτων λάβε φροντίδα take thought for them, Pi.N.10.22; “ἦσαν ἐν φροντίδι ἀλλήλων πέρι” Hdt.1.111, cf. 7.205; “περὶ ὧν ἐν φ. μεγάλῃ καθίσταται” Phld.Rh.2.27S.; “ἐκείνοις οὐδὲ εἷς περὶ τούτου λόγος οὐδὲ φ.” Pl.Phd.101e; “φ. ἐποιήσατο τῆς Ἑλλάδος” D.S.11.28, cf. 36, Ocell.4.14; περί τινος ἐποιοῦντο πολλὴν φ. v.l. in D.S.15.28: folld. by a relat. clause, “ἐν φ. εἶναι ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν” X.HG6.5.33, cf. Cyr.5.2.5.
2. abs., thought, reflection, meditation, “τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς . . θήσει δικαίως” A.Ag.912; “πολλὰς . . ὁδοὺς ἐλθόντα φροντίδος πλάνοις” S.OT67 (parodied by Henioch.4.5, ἔχον . . πολλὰς φροντίδων διεξόδους）; ἐν φροντίδι γίγνεσθαι, of a person, X.Cyr.6.2.12; but μοι ἐν φροντίδι ἐγένετο [τὸ πρῆγμα] Hdt.2.104; ἐμβῆσαί τινα ἐς φροντίδα to set one a-thinking, Id.1.46; “φροντίδα . . θώμεθα” A.Pers.142 (anap.); “δεῖ βαθείας φ. σωτηρίου” Id.Supp.407, cf. 417; “ποῖ τις φροντίδος ἔλθῃ;” S. OC170 (anap.): pl., thoughts, “νόον ὑπὸ γλυκυτάταις ἔθηκε φροντίσιν” Pi.O.1.19; ἐπὶ φροντίδων ζῆν to live thoughtfully, E.Fr.684.4: prov., “αἱ δεύτεραί πως φ. σοφώτεραι” Id.Hipp.436.
b. esp. of the speculations of Socrates and the philosophers, Ar.Nu.233, al.; φροντίδ᾽ ἐξήμβλωκας ἐξηυρημένην ib.137; “φροντίδα φιλόσοφον ἐγείρειν” Id.Ec.572.(lyr.)
c. care, anxiety, Xenoph.8; “καί με καρδίαν ἀμύσσει φ.” A.Pers.161 (troch.); “ἐλπὶς ἀμύνει φροντίδ᾽” Id.Ag.102 (anap.), cf. 166 (lyr.), Eu.453; οὐ φροντὶς Ἱπποκλείδῃ no matter to H., Hdt.6.129. cf. Hermipp.17; “παρασχεῖν φροντίδα τινί” Ar.Eq.612; “εἰσέρχεται αὐτῷ δέος καὶ φ.” Pl.R.330d: pl., cares, worries, “λύπας καὶ φροντίδας ἐμβέβληκεν” Antipho 2.2.2, cf. Isoc.Ep.2.11, Epicur.Ep.1p.28U.; “μεστόν ἐστι τὸ ζῆν φροντίδων” Men.452.
d. heart's desire, Pi.P. 10.62.
e. hypochondria, “φ. νοῦσος χαλεπή” Hp.Morb.2.72.
II. power of thought, mind, “τὸ . . ἁλώσιμον ἐμᾷ φροντίδι” S.Ph.863 (lyr.); “οὐδ᾽ ἔνι φροντίδος ἔγχος” Id.OT170(lyr.); τὸ γὰρ τὴν φ. ἔξω τῶν κακῶν οἰκεῖν γλυκύ ib.1390; “νέα γὰρ φ. οὐκ ἀλγεῖν φιλεῖ” E.Med. 48.
III. authority, PLond.1.242.8 (iv A. D.); guardianship, PMasp.26.5 (vi A. D.).
2. office, function, department, Lyd.Mag. 2.7, al., Cod.Just.1.3.38.6 (pl.), Just.Nov.8 Not.49.
3. portion of land entrusted to a person, “ἑκάστη φ. τῶν φυτευομένων τόπων” PFlor.148.12 (iii A. D.), etc.
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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