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ἀνθηρός , ά, όν,
A.flowery, blooming, “ἔαρ” Chaerem.9; λειμών, δάπεδον, Ar.Av.1093, Ra.352; “χώρα” Str.17.3.12 (Comp.); πρόσοψις, διάθεσις, D.S.5.3,19; “τὰ ἀ.” flowery meads, Plu.2.770b; but also, flowering plants, ib.765d.
II. metaph., fresh, young, “χλόη” E.Cyc.541; of music, etc., fresh, new, X.Cyr.1.6.38; of persons, Plu.Pomp.69; “ἱλαρὸς καὶ ἀ.” 2.50b; cf. “ἄνθος” 11.1 fin.
2. τᾶς μανίας ἀνθηρὸν μένος rage bursting (as it were) into flower, i.e. exuberant, S.Ant.960.
3. bright-coloured, brilliant, “τοῦ χαλκοῦ τὸ ἀ.” Plu.2.395b; of colours, “τὸ ἀ. τῶν χρωμάτων” Luc.Nigr.13. cf. Plu.2.79d, etc.
4. brilliant, splendid, “δειπνάριον” Diph.64; “ἐδωδή” Ph.1.679 (Comp.) (s.v.l.); “βίος” Max.Tyr.21.1; “θεωρία” Iamb.in Nic.p.35P.; of personal appearance, dress, etc., “ἀνθηρὸς εἱμάτων στολῇ” E.IA73. Adv. -ῶς Sch.Opp.H.1.459.
5. of style, flowery, florid, “ἀ.” genus dicendi Quint.Inst.12.10.58,cf.Plu.2.648b; of music, ἀ. καὶ μαλακὴ ἁρμονία (metaph. of policy), Id.Per.15; “ἂν ἀ. ᾖ τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἔστω καὶ ἡ λέξις τοιαύτη” Hermog.Prog. 10. Adv. "ἀνθηρῶς", an exclamation of applause, Plu.2.46a: Comp. “ἀνθηρότερον, λέγειν” Isoc.13.18.
III. ἀνθηρός, ὁ, = ἅλιμον, Ps.-Dsc.1.91.
2. ἀνθηρά, ἡ, name of a lip-salve, Plin.HN24.69, Gal.13.839; also of a plaster, Cels.6.11, Sor. ap. Gal.12.957.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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