The corpus record

ἔκφρων

ekphron

out of oneʼs mind, beside oneself

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Where it lives

Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
On the False Embassy 2 · 0.87/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἔκφρων · ekphrōn — LSJ

out of oneʼs mind, beside oneself, senseless, stupid, frenzied, enthusiastic

out of oneʼs mind, beside oneself, Hp. Mul. 2.117, Luc. Nigr. 38, Plot. 2.9.8; senseless, stupid, D. 19.267; also, frenzied, enthusiastic, of poets, Pl. Ion 534b; of Bacchantes, Luc. Bacch. 1, AP 6.220.2 (Diosc.), cf. Pl. Lg. 790e.

Adv. -φρόνως, ἥττων γίγνεσθαι τῶν προσπιπτόντων Hld. 6.9.

In the wild

ἔκφρονας · ekphronas Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.267 (DIORISIS sentence 939)
ἔκφρων · ekphrōn Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Proof.127 (DIORISIS sentence 432)
ἔκφρων · ekphrōn Plato, Ion 534
ἔκφρονα · ekphrona Plato, Laws 929
ἐκφρόνων · ekphronōn Plato, Laws 790
ἔκφρονα · ekphrona Plato, Republic 3.402 (DIORISIS sentence 1812)

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