φαιδρόν (phaidron)

φαιδρόν is an Ancient Greek form of φαιδρός, meaning “bright, radiant, cheerful”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.31: … ὅτι καλός, ὦπται καὶ πάντῃ πᾶς τις ἐπιστρέφεται, θυμέ, τί μηνύεις κυσὶν ὀστέον; εἶτʼ ἀνιήσῃ ὕστερον; οὐχ οὕτω Φαῖδρον ἀπωλέσαμεν; ἔχειν τε Ἀρχεάνασσαν, εἰς ἣν καὶ αὐτὴν οὕτω ποιῆσαι· Ἀρχεάνασσαν ἔχω τὴν ἐκ Κολοφῶνος ἑταίραν, ἧς …

Euripides, Medea 1043: γυναῖκες, ὄμμα φαιδρὸν ὡς εἶδον τέκνων.

Marcus Aurelius, Ad Se Ipsum 1.16.2: … φαντασίαις· καὶ τὸ διατηρητικὸν τῶν φίλων καὶ μηδαμοῦ ἁψίκορον μηδὲ ἐπιμανές· καὶ τὸ αὔταρκες ἐν παντὶ καὶ τὸ φαιδρόν·

All forms of φαιδρός (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.