Ancient Greek

Verb

φρονέω • ‎(phronéō)

1. to think, to have understanding, to be wise, prudent
   • Homer, Iliad 6.79
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 176
   • Aeschylus, The Suppliants 204, (compare 176)
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 617
   • Sophocles, 1348
   • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 115.4
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.5.44
   • Plato, First Alcibiades 133.C
   • Plato, Philebus 11.B
   • Plato, Phaedrus 266.B
   • Demosthenes 319.28
   • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 312
   • Plato, Laws 712.A
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 753
   • Sophocles, Ajax 1252
   • Aeschines, Collected Works 19.34
2. to be minded in a certain way, to mean, intend, purpose
   • Homer, Iliad 3.98
   • Homer, Iliad 17.286, (compare 9.608)
   • Homer, Iliad 12.124
   • Homer, Iliad 13.135
   • Homer, Iliad 9.310
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 272
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.46
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.85
   1. (with a neuter adjective)
      1. to have certain thoughts towards someone
         • Homer, Iliad 4.219, (compare Odyssey 6.213)
         • Homer, Iliad 22.264
         • Homer, Iliad 16.701
         • Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.155
         • Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.30
         • Aristophanes, Plutus 577
         • Homer, Odyssey 7.74
         • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1436
         • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 774
         • Andocides, Collected Works 20.16
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 39.C
         • Homer, Iliad 6.162
         • Homer, Odyssey 1.43
         • Homer, Odyssey 17.596
         • Homer, Iliad 1.542
         • Homer, Iliad 18.567
         • Hesiod, Theogony 989, (compare Homer, Iliad 6.400)
         • Homer, Odyssey 9.445
         • Homer, Odyssey 21.85
         • Homer, Iliad 5.441
         • Sophocles, Fragments 515
         • Euripides, Alcestis 799
         • Plato, Timaeus 90.C
         • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 425
         • Sophocles, Ajax 777
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.3
         • Lucian, Timon 57
         • Sophocles, Electra 228
         • Aristophanes, The Wasps 507
         • Aristophanes, The Clouds 821
         • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 8.5
         • Homer, Iliad 17.23
      2. (preceded by μέγα ‎(méga)) to be high-minded, to have high thoughts, to be sprited and bold
         • Homer, Iliad 11.296
         • Homer, Iliad 13.156
         • Homer, Iliad 16.758
         • Homer, Iliad 11.325, (compare Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.62)
         • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1078, (compare Lysias, Collected Works 195.14, Isocrates, Collected Works 67.E)
         1. (in Attic, in a bad sense) to be heady, presumptuous, conceited, proud
            • Plato, Symposium 217.A
            • Plato, Protagoras 342.A
            • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.16
            • Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.27
            • Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.8
            • Xenophon, Hellenica 3.5.21
            • Sophocles, Antigone 768
            • Isocrates, Collected Works 141.B
            • Euripides, Herakles' Children 933
            • Plato, Phaedrus 257.E
            • Xenophon, Agesilaus 2.5
            • Demosthenes 836.11
            • Xenophon, Hipparchicus 7.3
            • Euripides, Hippolytus 6
            • Aeschines, Collected Works 44.36
            • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.13
            • Plato, Symposium 198.D
            • Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.45
            • Plato, Symposium 217.A
      3. to agree, to side with
         • Herodotus, Histories 2.162
         • Herodotus, Histories 7.102
         • Sophocles, Ajax 491
         • Aristophanes, Peace 623
         • Aristophanes, Plutus 577
         • Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.30
         • Herodotus, Histories 7.145, (compare Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.22)
         • Isocrates, Collected Works 184.D
         • Homer, Iliad 15.50, (compare Sophocles, Antigone 374)
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.60
         • Herodotus, Histories 5.3
         • Aristophanes, The Birds 634
         • Homer, Iliad 13.345
         • Homeric Hymn to Apollo 469
         • Herodotus, Histories 9.54
         • Dinarchus, 96 15
3. to have a thing in one's mind, mind, take heed
   • Homer, Odyssey 16.136
   • Homer, Odyssey 17.193
   • Homer, Odyssey 17.281
   • Aeschines, Collected Works 67.11
   • Homer, Odyssey 2.116, (compare Homer, Iliad 2.36)
   • Homer, Odyssey 14.82
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.16
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 14.6
4. to be in possession of one's senses, to be sensible, to be alive
   • Homer, Iliad 22.59
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 517
   • Sophocles, Ajax 554
   • Plato, The Sophist 249.A
   • Sophocles, Ajax 82, (compare 344)
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 853
   • Euripides, Medea 1129
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 85.E, (compare Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.12)
   • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 385, (compare Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1666)
   • Euripides, Medea 1329
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 332
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 851
   • Aristophanes, The Clouds 817
   • Sophocles, Ajax 942
   • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 924
   • Plato, Hippias Minor 371.A

Inflection

References

• φρονέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φρονέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φρονέω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φρονέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «φρονέω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φρονέω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5426”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979