The corpus record

βρενθύομαι

brenthuomai

bear oneself haughtily, hold oneʼs head high, swagger

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Where it lives

Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Symposium 2 · 1.15/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

βρενθύομαι · brenthyomai — LSJ

bear oneself haughtily, hold oneʼs head high, swagger, plume oneself, take umbrage

bear oneself haughtily, hold oneʼs head high, swagger, ὑπὸ φρονήματος Ar. Pax 26, cf. Nu. 362, Pl. Smp. 221b, Luc. DMort. 20[10].8; πρός τινα Ar. Lys. 887; β. τι πρὸς αὑτόν Luc. Tim. 54; β. ἐπί τινι plume oneself on . . , Ath. 14.625b; ἐβρενθύετο Lib. Or. 56.17, Agath. 1.14; also, take umbrage, β. καὶ ἀγανακτῶν Ael. NA 5.36. (Either from βρένθος II or from βρένθειος, as Phld. Vit. p.37 J., Sch. Ar. Lys. 887.)

In the wild

βρενθύει · brenthyei Aristophanes, Clouds 360 (DIORISIS sentence 306)
βρενθύεται · brenthyetai Aristophanes, Lysistrata 887 (DIORISIS sentence 682)
βρενθύεταί · brenthyetai Aristophanes, Peace 25 (DIORISIS sentence 24)
βρενθύει · brenthyei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1267)
ἐβρενθύετοʼ · ebrenthyetoʼ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.66.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1128)
βρενθυόμενος · brenthyomenos Plato, Symposium 221 (DIORISIS sentence 975)

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