A.to be soft or delicate, “χλιδῶσα μολπά” Pi.O.10(11).84; “χλιδῶν πλόκαμος” A.Fr.313: but mostly in bad sense, live delicately or luxuriously, Ar.Lys.640 (troch.); rare in Prose, “χ. κατὰ τὴν δίαιταν” Arr.An.5.4.4: c. dat., revel in, “τοῖς παροῦσι πράγμασι” A.Pr.971; “πλούτῳ” E.Fr. 986; “πώγωνι” S.Ichn.358; χ. ἐπί τινι to pride oneself upon a thing, “δῶρ᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷσι νῦν χλιδᾷς” Id.El.360: abs., show insolence, A.Supp.833 (lyr., s. v. l.).
χλι^δ-άω , poet. Verb,
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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