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φορτικός

φορτικός, coarse, vulgar, tiresome

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φορτικώτερον masculine accusative singular comparative, neuter nominative singular comparative, neuter vocative singular comparative, neuter accusative singular comparative 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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