The corpus record

σκυθρωπ-άζω

skuthropazo

look angry

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Where it lives

Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Against Stephanus 1 1 · 1.77/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Psalmi 4 · 1.17/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Jeremias 2 · 0.72/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

σκυθρωπ-άζω · skythrōp-azō — LSJ

look angry, sullen, be of a sad countenance

look angry or sullen, be of a sad countenance, Ar. Lys. 7, Pl. 756; ὡς οὐδὲν ἦσθα πλὴν σκυθρωπάζειν μόνον Amphis 13, cf. Antiph. 218.3, PCair.Zen. 481.30 (iii B.C.): aor. 1, ἐσκυθρώπασαν ἀκούσαντες X. Cyr. 6.2.21; σφόδρα πάνυ σκυθρωπάσας Aeschin. 2.36, cf. Thphr. Char. 14.7: pf. ἐσκυθρωπακέναι Pl. Alc. 2.138a; ἐσκυθρωπακώς D. 45.68.

2 to be of a sad colour

to be of a sad colour, Philostr. Im. 1.28.

In the wild

σκυθρώπαζʼ · skythrōpazʼ Aristophanes, Lysistrata 8 (DIORISIS sentence 7)
ἐσκυθρώπαζόν · eskythrōpazon Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 596)
ἐσκυθρωπάκασιν · eskythrōpakasin Demosthenes, Against Conon Proof.34 (DIORISIS sentence 101)
ἐσκυθρωπακώς · eskythrōpakōs Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 68 (DIORISIS sentence 228)
σκυθρωπάζειν · skythrōpazein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2422)
ἐσκυθρωπακότα · eskythrōpakota Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3509)

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