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μειρᾰκῐώδ-ης

meirakiodes

becoming a youth, youthful

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Where it lives

Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μειρᾰκῐώδ-ης · meirakiōd-ēs — LSJ

becoming a youth, youthful, foppish, affected

becoming a youth, youthful, παιδεία Pl. R. 498b: τὸ μ., of style, foppish, affected, D.H. Isoc. 12, cf. Pomp. 2, Longin. 3.4.

II characteristic of youth

characteristic of youth, δόξα Pl. R. 466b; ὑπερβολαί Arist. Rh. 1413a29; βίος τῶν ἀσώτων Ph. 1.678. Adv. -δῶς Plb. 11.14.7, Phld. Mus. p.109 K.: Comp. -έστερον Din. Fr. 66.

In the wild

μειρακιώδεις · meirakiōdeis Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
μειρακιῶδές · meirakiōdes Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2499)
μειρακιώδει · meirakiōdei Plato, Gorgias 486
μειρακιώδης · meirakiōdēs Plato, Republic 5.466 (DIORISIS sentence 3192)
μειρακιώδη · meirakiōdē Plato, Republic 6.498 (DIORISIS sentence 3864)

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