The corpus record

ἀνδρεία

andreia · ἡ

may, manliness, manly spirit, brave deeds

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Where it lives

Laches 43 · 56.05/10k
Virtues and Vices 5 · 33.72/10k
Protagoras 17 · 9.57/10k
Machabaeorum IV 7 · 9.07/10k
Alcibiades 1 9 · 8.78/10k
Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Eudemian Ethics 19 · 7.28/10k
Ecclesiastes 3 · 6.63/10k
Statesman 11 · 6.49/10k
Epinomis 4 · 6.34/10k
Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Cratylus 8 · 4.47/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀνδρεία · andreia — LSJ

manliness, manly spirit, brave deeds

manliness, manly spirit, opp. δειλία, Il.cc., cf. Arist. Rh. 1366b11, EN 1115a6; also of women, S. El. 983, Arist. Pol. 1260a22; ἀνδρεία ἡ περὶ τὰς ναυτιλίας Str. 3.1.8:—in pl., brave deeds, Pl. Lg. 922a; ironically, αἱ διὰ τῶν λόγων ἀνδρεῖαι D. Prooem. 45.

II hardihood, insolence

in bad sense, hardihood, insolence, D.Chr. 12.13.

III

= ἡ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἡλικία, Antipho Soph. 67a.

membrum virile, Artem. 1.45.

V skill

skill, LXX Ec. 4.4.

In the wild

ἀνδρείᾳ · andreiai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 52–53
ἀνδρεία · andreia Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1461)
ἀνδρεία · andreia Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1469)
ἀνδρείας · andreias Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1468)
ἀνδρείαν · andreian Aristotle, Ars Poetica 15
ἀνδρείαι · andreiai Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 221)

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