The corpus record

γαυρ-ιάω

gauriao

bear, proudly, prance, to be splendid

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

γαυρ-ιάω · gaur-iaō — LSJ

bear, proudly, prance, to be splendid, to be luxuriant, pride oneself on

bear oneself proudly, prance, prop. of horses, γαυριῶντες Plu. Lyc. 22:—Med., φυσῶντα καὶ γαυριώμενον X. Eq. 10.16; to be splendid, γαυριῶσαι . . τράπεζαι Cratin. 301; to be luxuriant, ἡ γῆ θάλλει καὶ γ. Jul. Or. 4.155c; of persons, Phld. Vit. p.27 J., Ph. 1.152, al.: c. dat., pride oneself on a thing, εἰ ταύτῃ [τῇ ἥττῃ] γαυριᾷς D. 18.244; so ἐπί σφισι γαυριόωντες (Meineke -όωντο) Theoc. 25.133, cf. Plu. Lyc. 30, Palaeph. 1.8, Anon. Oxy. 220iii3.

In the wild

γαυριῶντα · gauriōnta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 663)
γαυριᾷ · gauriai Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 207)
γαυριᾷ · gauriai Septuaginta, Job 39
γαυριᾷ · gauriai Septuaginta, Job 39
ἐγαυρίασαν · egauriasan Septuaginta, Judith 9
γαυριώμενος · gauriōmenos Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 10.16 (DIORISIS sentence 330)

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