The corpus record

ἁβρότης

abrotes · ἡ

splendour, luxury

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Where it lives

Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

splendour, luxury, of luxury, luxurious, to be fastidious, the freshness of youth

splendour, luxury, δόμους ἁβρότατος houses of luxury, i.e. luxurious, Pi. P. 11.34, cf. B. Fr. 26; τῇ Μήδων στολῇ καὶ ἁβρότητι X. Cyr. 8.8.15, cf. Pl. Alc. 1.122c, E. Ba. 968; οὐκ ἐν ἁβρότητι κεῖσαι thou art not in a position to be fastidious, Id. IA 1343; also, ἁβρότατος ἔπι in the freshness of youth, Pi. P. 8.89.

II sweetness, charm

of style, sweetness, charm, Hermog. Id. 1.12.

In the wild

ἁβρότητʼ · habrotētʼ Euripides, Bacchae 968
ἁβρότητι · habrotēti Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 803)
ἁβροσύνῃ · habrosynēi Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 211)
ἁβρότητα · habrotēta Plato, Alcibiades 1 122
ἁβρότητος · habrotētos Plato, Symposium 197 (DIORISIS sentence 445)
ἁβρότητι · habrotēti Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.15 (DIORISIS sentence 4931)

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Where it came from

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