The corpus record

μεγᾰλ-αυχέω

megalaucheo

boast, brag

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Where it lives

Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

μεγᾰλ-αυχέω · megal-aucheō — LSJ

boast, brag

boast, brag, A. Ag. 1528 (anap.), LXX Ez. 16.50, Ph. 1.284, AP 5.272 (Agath.); ἐπί τινι Plb. 12.13.10; ἐν ταῖς εὐπραγίαις Id. 8.21.11; διά τι D.S. 15.16:—also in Med., Pl. Alc. 1.104c, R. 395d; ἐπί τινι App. BC 1.13.

II boast of

c. acc., boast of, μονομάχιον Id. Gall. 10.

In the wild

μεγαλαυχείτω · megalaucheitō Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1526–1529
μεγαλαυχούμενος · megalauchoumenos Plato, Alcibiades 1 104
μεγαλαυχουμένου · megalauchoumenou Plato, Hippias Minor 368
μεγαλαυχουμένην · megalauchoumenēn Plato, Republic 3.395 (DIORISIS sentence 1660)
ἐμεγαλαύχουν · emegalauchoun Septuaginta, Ezechiel 16
ἐμεγαλαύχησεν · emegalauchēsen Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 15

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Where it came from

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