εἰρων-ικός · eirōn-ikos — LSJ
dissembling, hollow, insincere, mockingly
dissembling: hence, hollow, insincere, Pl. Sph. 268a; τὸ εἰ. εἶδος Id. Lg. 908e; εἰρωνικόν τι ὑπομειδιάσας Hld. 10.14. Adv. -κῶς mockingly, Ar. V. 174, Pl. Smp. 218d, etc.
The corpus record
εἰρων-ικός
eironikos
dissembling
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Where it lives
- Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
- Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- εἰρωνικῶς · eirōnikōs Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.18.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1926)
- εἰρωνικῶς · eirōnikōs Plato, Euthydemus 302
- εἰρωνικὸν · eirōnikon Plato, Laws 908
- εἰρωνικῶς · eirōnikōs Plato, Lovers 133
- εἰρωνικοῦ · eirōnikou Plato, Sophist 268
- εἰρωνικὸν · eirōnikon Plato, Sophist 268
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Where it came from
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