flatterer, false friend
flatterer, false friend, Hdt. 3.80; θ. πλούτου Antipho Soph. 65, cf. Them. Or. 20.237d.
II fawning
as Adj., θῶπες λόγοι fawning speeches, Trag.Adesp. 24, Pl. Tht. 175e, Ph. 2.52 (cf. τέ-θηπα, θάμβος).
The corpus record
θώψ
thops · ὁ
flatterer, false friend
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Where it lives
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θωπί · thōpi Herodotus, Histories 3.80.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3496)
- θῶπας · thōpas Plato, Theaetetus 175
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.