προσφιλῆ (prosphile)

προσφιλῆ is an Ancient Greek form of προσφιλής, meaning “dear, pleasing”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 10.5: βουλόμενος δὲ μὴ μόνον ἑαυτὸν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀντὶ φοβερᾶς χειροήθη καὶ προσφιλῆ ποιεῖν τοῖς πολλοῖς, τούς τε πελέκεις ἀπέλυσε τῶν ῥάβδων, αὐτάς τε τὰς ῥάβδους εἰς ἐκκλησίαν παριὼν ὑφῆκε τῷ …

Sophocles, Ichneutae 84: [ἐ]μοί τʼ [ἂ]ν [ε]ἴη προσφιλὴ[ς] φράσας τόδε

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.22.132: … μὲν ὁμοίῳ τὸ ὅμοιον ὄντι μετρίῳ φίλον ἂν εἴη, τὰ δὲ ἄμετρα οὔτε ἀλλήλοις οὔτε τοῖς ἐμμέτροις. τὸν οὖν τῷ θεῷ προσφιλῇ γενησόμενον εἰς δύναμιν ὅτι μάλιστα καὶ αὐτὸν τοιοῦτον ἀναγκαῖον γίνεσθαι.

All forms of προσφιλής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.