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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: thibros 2: trupherobios 3: chlidanos 4: habrodiaitos 5: atrupheros
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habros, a, on, poet. also os, on:--

  • graceful, delicate, pretty, parthenos Hes.Fr.218; pais, Erôs Anacr.17,au=Anacr. 65; abrai Charites Sapph.60; esp. of the body, sôma, pous, etc., Pind. O. 6.55, Eur. Tro. 506; neut. pl., habra parêidos ti=Eur. Phoen. 1486; of women, A.Fr.313, Soph. Trach. 523; ha. athurma, of a pet dog, IG14.1647 (Lipara): of things, splendid, stephanos, kudos, ploutos Pind. I. 8.65, ti=Pind. O. 5.7, ti=Pind. P. 3.110: of style, graceful, pretty, logos Hermog.Id.2.5; freq. with a notion of disparagement, dainty, luxurious; hence, habra pathein live delicately, Sol.24.4, Thgn.474; a common epithet of Asiatics, Hdt. 1.71, etc.; Iônôn habros . . ochlos Antiph. 91; Agathursoi -otatoi andrôn Hdt. 4.104. Adv. habrôs, psallein Anacr.17; humnein Stesich.37; bainein step delicately, Sapph.5, Eur. Med. 831: neut. sg. as Adv., habron bainontes Eur. Med. 1164; neut. pl., habra gelan Anacreont.41.3, au=Anacreont. 42.5: Comp. habroterôs, echein Hld.1.17.--Chiefly poet., never in old Ep.; rare in early Prose, Xen. Sym. 4.44, Plat. Sym. 204c, Clearch.4. [a^ by nature, cf. Eur. Med. 1164, ti=Eur. Tro. 820.]