The corpus record

θερᾰπ-ευτικός

therapeutikos

inclined to serve

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Where it lives

Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

inclined to serve, inclined to court

inclined to serve, c. gen., τῶν φίλων X. Ages. 8.1; εὐσέβεια δύναμις θ. θεῶν Pl. Def. 412e; θεοῦ Ph. 1.202 (but τὸ θ. γένος, = θεραπευταί, Id. 2.473); inclined to court, τῶν δυνατῶν, τοῦ πλήθους, Plu. Lys. 2, Comp.Lyc. Num. 2; τὸ θ. τῆς ὁμιλίας Id. Lys. 4.

2 courteous, obsequious

abs., courteous, obsequious, in good and bad sense, X. HG 3.1.28 (Comp.), Plu. Luc. 16; θ. παρρησία Id. Adul. 2.74a. Adv. -κῶς Id. Art. 4; θ. ἔχειν τινός Ph. 1.186, cf. Str. 6.4.2.

II inclined to take care of, careful of

inclined to take care of, careful of, λόγου dub. l. in Men. 402.15.

2 valetudinarian, therapeutics, moral remedies

esp. of medical treatment, ἕξις θ. a valetudinarian habit of body, Arist. Pol. 1335b7; ἡ -κή, = θεραπεία, Pl. Plt. 282a; also τὸ -κόν therapeutics, Dsc. Ther.Praef. (but also τὸ περὶ παθῶν θ., title of a work on moral remedies by Chrysippus, Phld. Ir. p.17 W.); περὶ θ. μεθόδου, title of work by Galen.

In the wild

θεραπευτικὴ · therapeutikē Aristotle, Politics 1335b (DIORISIS sentence 2913)
θεραπευτικὸς · therapeutikos Plato, Epistles 321
θεραπευτικὴν · therapeutikēn Plato, Statesman 275
θεραπευτικήν · therapeutikēn Plato, Statesman 282
θεραπευτικὸν · therapeutikon Xenophon, Agesilaus 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 271)
θεραπευτικώτεροι · therapeutikōteroi Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.28 (DIORISIS sentence 899)

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