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θερα^π-ευτικός , ή, όν,
A.inclined to serve, c. gen., “τῶν φίλων” X.Ages.8.1; “εὐσέβεια δύναμις θ. θεῶν” Pl.Def.412e; “θεοῦ” Ph.1.202 (but τὸ θ. γένος, = θεραπευταί, Id.2.473); inclined to court, τῶν δυνατῶν, τοῦ πλήθους, Plu.Lys.2, Comp.Lyc. Num.2; “τὸ θ. τῆς ὁμιλίας” Id.Lys.4.
2. abs., courteous, obsequious, in good and bad sense, X.HG3.1.28 (Comp.), Plu.Luc.16; “θ.παρρησία” Id.2.74a. Adv. “-κῶς” Id.Art.4; “θ. ἔχειν τινός” Ph.1.186, cf. Str.6.4.2.
II. inclined to take care of, careful of, λόγου dub. l. in Men.402.15.
2. esp. of medical treatment, ἕξις θ. a valetudinarian habit of body, Arist.Pol.1335b7; ἡ -κή, = θεραπεία, Pl.Plt.282a; also τὸ -κόν therapeutics, Dsc. Ther.Praef. (but also τὸ περὶ παθῶν θ., title of a work on moral remedies by Chrysippus, Phld.Ir.p.17 W.); περὶ θ. μεθόδου, title of work by Galen.
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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    • Plato, Statesman, 282a
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.4.2
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.1.28
    • Xenophon, Agesilaus, 8.1
    • Plutarch, Lysander, 2
    • Plutarch, Lysander, 4
    • Plutarch, Artaxerxes, 4
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 16
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