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φορτικός

φορτικός, coarse, vulgar, tiresome

Could not find φορτικώτατον in Logeion dictionaries.

φορτικώτατον masculine accusative singular superlative, neuter accusative singular superlative, neuter nominative singular superlative, neuter vocative singular superlative of φορτικός

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φορτ-ῐκός, ή, όν: (φόρτος):—prop.
  • fit for carrying, πλοῖον φ. a ship of burden, D.C. 56.27, v.l. in Th. 6.88.
    • II of the nature of a burden: metaph. (cf. φόρτος II), tiresome, wearisome, τὸ λέγειν . . φ. καὶ ἐπαχθές D. 5.4; τοῖς συνοῦσι φ. Plu. Cohib. 2.456e, cf. Aud. 44a, etc.; φ. ἀκολούθων ὄχλῳ because of the crowd . ., Luc. Nigr. 13; -ωτάτη λειτουργία most onerous, POxy. 904.9 (v A. D.).
      • 2 coarse, vulgar, common, ἄνδρες Ar. Nu. 524; opp. πεπαιδευμένος, Arist. Pol. 1342a20; οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ -ώτατοι, opp. οἱ χαρίεντες, Id. EN 1095b16; βωμολόχοι καὶ φ. ib. 1128a5; φ. καὶ νεόπλουτος Plu. QConv. 2.708c.
        • b of things, φ. κωμῳδία a vulgar, low comedy, Ar. V. 66, cf. Pl. Phdr. 236c; φ. τὸ χωρίον Ar. Lys. 1218; φ. γέλως Com.Adesp. 644; δίαιτα -ωτέρα καὶ ἀφιλόσοφος Pl. Phdr. 256b; ἡδονὴ φ. Id. R. 581d; φ. καὶ δημηγορικά base, low arguments, ad captandum vulgus, Id. Grg. 482e; φ. μὲν καὶ δικανικά, ἀληθῆ δέ Id. Ap. 32a; τῷ φ. προσχρῆσθαι Id. Cra. 435c; -ώτερόν τι ἐρήσομαι Id. Euthd. 286e; φ. ἔπαινος Arist. EN 1178b16; ἡ <πρὸς> ἅπαντα μιμουμένη [τέχνη] φορτική art that imitates with a view to any and every man is vulgar, Id. Po. 1462a4; λέγω οὐ τοῦ φ. ἕνεκα I do not say it out of vulgar arrogance, Aeschin. 1.41; of an inflated rhetorical style, φ. κατασκευή D.H. Lys. 3; τὸ φ. τῆς λέξεως vulgarity of style, Id. Th. 27; τὸ φ. καὶ στρατιωτικόν, of the speeches of Iphicrates, Id. Lys. 12; τὸ φ. τῶν μέτρων Luc. JTr. 14.
      • 3 Adv. -ικῶς coarsely, vulgarly, σκοπεῖν Pl. Tht. 183e, cf. R. 367a; φ. ἐπαινεῖν ib. 528e; φ. καὶ χύδην λέγειν Isoc. 12.24; φ. πολιτεύεσθαι Id. 7.53; φ. καὶ σοβαρῶς Plu. QConv. 2.634c; -ώτερον ἢ φιλοσοφώτερον διαλέγεσθαι to discourse more like a clown than one of liberal education, Id. Sol. 3.

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