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χλῐδ-ή

chlide · ἡ

delicacy, luxury, effeminacy

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Where it lives

  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
  • Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
  • Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
  • Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
  • Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
  • Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
  • Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
  • Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χλῐδ-ή · chlid-ē — LSJ

delicacy, luxury, effeminacy

delicacy, luxury, effeminacy, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον χλιδῆς ἀπίκετο Hdt. 6.127; ἄγαλμα τῆς ὑπερπλούτου χ. A. Pr. 466; εὐνῆς παροψώνημα τῆς ἐμῆς χ. Id. Ag. 1447; οἶκος ὀγκωθεὶς χλιδῇ S. Fr. 942; τρυφή, ἁβρότης, χ. Pl. Smp. 197d; ἐν χλιδῇ τεθράμμεθα X. Cyr. 4.5.54.

2 wantonness, insolence

wantonness, insolence, μή τοι χλιδῇ δοκεῖτε μηδʼ αὐθαδίᾳ σιγᾶν με A. Pr. 436; δυσπότμου χάριν χ. S. OT 888 (lyr.).

3 luxuries, fine raiment, costly ornaments, personal charms, luxuriant hair, luxuriously, richly, pride

concrete, of luxuries, fine raiment, costly ornaments, etc., E. Ion 26; μυρίων πέπλων χλιδή Id. Rh. 960: pl., χλιδὰς πόντος ἥρπασε Id. Hel. 424; of personal charms, παρθένων χλιδαῖσιν εὐμόρφοις A. Supp. 1003; καράτομοι χλιδαί luxuriant hair cut from the head, S. El. 52; ζῶμα . . οὐ χλιδαῖς ἠσκημένον luxuriously, richly, ib. 452; κόμας ἐμᾶς . . παρθένιον χλιδάν a maidenʼs pride, E. Ph. 224 (lyr.):—Mostly poet. [ῑ only late, Ps.-Phoc. 212 (sed leg. χλιδαναῖς).] (Cf. χλοιδᾶν, ONorse glita, glitra,

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