Ἁβρύνεται

puts on airs

Translated by Anne Mahoney26 Aug 1998Vetting: high7 revisions

7 words

[Meaning] adorns oneself, is conceited, is boastful.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἁβρύνεται· κοσμεῖται, θρύπτεται, καυχᾶται.

Betacode

*(abru/netai: kosmei=tai, qru/ptetai, kauxa=tai.

Same or similar entry in other lexica; references at Photius alpha61 Theodoridis. This is comment, presumably, on one of the famous appearances of the headword in Attic tragedy: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1205 (web address 1); Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1339 (web address 2).