Χλιδή

[Meaning] daintiness,¹ laxity, and softness. It is said [to derive] from the [verb] e)xlia/nqai ["to have been warmed"].²
Xenophon [writes]: "we have not been reared in luxury, but in rustic fashion."³
And elsewhere: "and so, therefore, there was much of luxury in the leader of the Turks."⁴
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "with luxuriant head-cuts", [meaning] with locks cut from the head. He might say "luxuriant hairs" [xlida/s], which are generally locks of hair, which are the dainties of the head; or inasmuch as locks are placed in the tomb as dainties and adornment for the dead. Sophocles [writes]: "first crowning the tomb of our father with libations and with luxuriant head-cuts we will then return back again."⁵