φαύλῳ (phaulo)

φαύλῳ is an Ancient Greek form of φαῦλος, meaning “poor, mean, trivial, bad”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of Φάυλος, “Phaulos — cheap, easy, slight, paltry; easy, slight; slight matter”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.174: πρὸς δὲ τὸν μονήρη καὶ ἑαυτῷ λαλοῦντα, οὐ φαύλῳ, ἔφη, ἀνθρώπῳ λαλεῖς. ὀνειδίσαντος αὐτῷ τινος εἰς τὸ γῆρας, Κἀγώ, ἔφη, ἀπιέναι βούλομαι· ὅταν δὲ πανταχόθεν ἐ …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.9.2: … τι ἡγοῦμαι σπουδῆς ἀξίους· ἀθλητὰς δὲ ὁπόσοι τι καὶ ὑπελείποντο ἐς δόξαν, ἐν λόγῳ σφᾶς ἐδήλωσα τῷ ἐς Ἠλείους. Φαΰλῳ δὲ Κροτωνιάτῃ—Ὀλυμπίασι μὲν οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ νίκη, τὰς δὲ Πυθοῖ πεντάθλου δύο ἀνείλετο καὶ σταδίου τὴν τρίτην· …

All forms of φαῦλος (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.