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ἀλαζ-ονεύομαι

alazoneuomai

make false pretensions, brag

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Where it lives

Against the Sophists 2 · 15.09/10k
For Phormio 1 · 2.55/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
Archidamus 1 · 1.63/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Panathenaicus 2 · 1.26/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Discourses 5 · 0.67/10k
Antidosis 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀλαζ-ονεύομαι · alaz-oneuomai — LSJ

make false pretensions, brag

make false pretensions, brag, Ar. Ra. 280, Lys. Fr. 73; of the Sophists, X. Mem. 1.7.5, etc.; περί τινος Eup. 146b, Isoc. 12.74; ἐπί τινι Aristipp. ap. D.L. 2.73.

2 feign

feign, Pl. Hp.Mi. 371a; τὰ ἤθη ἀ. Arist. Oec. 1344a19.

In the wild

ἀλαζονευόμενοι · alazoneuomenoi Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 624)
ἠλαζονεύεθʼ · ēlazoneuethʼ Aristophanes, Frogs 280–281
ἀλαζονευομένους · alazoneuomenous Aristotle, Economics 1344a (DIORISIS sentence 53)
ἀλαζονευόμενοι · alazoneuomenoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1127b (DIORISIS sentence 1457)
ἀλαζονεύονται · alazoneuontai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1127b (DIORISIS sentence 1458)
ἀλαζονεύσεται · alazoneusetai Demosthenes, For Phormio 40 (DIORISIS sentence 124)

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