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μεγα^λο-φρονέω ,
A.to be high-minded, μ. ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῷ to be confident in oneself, X.HG 6.2.39; “πρὸς τὰς ἀνάγκας” LXX 4 Ma.6.24; to be generous, D.C.43.21, al.:—Med., display high spirit, “περὶ τῆς ἡγεμονίας” J.AJ19.3.1.
II. in bad sense, to be arrogant, Plu.Dio40, al.:—in Med., Pl.R.528c; “ἐπί τινι” D.C.43.14; τινι Philostr.VA8.5; πρός τινα . . ὡς . . ib.1.39.
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):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.3.1
    • Plato, Republic, 528c
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.2.39
    • Plutarch, Dion, 40
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 43.14
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 43.21
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.39
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 8.5
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