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φορτ-ι^κός , ή, όν: (φόρτος):—prop.
A.fit for carrying, πλοῖον φ. a ship of burden, D.C.56.27, v.l. in Th.6.88.
II. of the nature of a burden: metaph. (cf. “φόρτος” 11), tiresome, wearisome, “τό λέγειν . . φ. καὶ ἐπαχθές” D.5.4; “τοῖς συνοῦσι φ.” Plu.2.456e, cf. 44a, etc.; φ. ἀκολούθων ὄχλῳ because of the crowd . . , Luc.Nigr.13; “-ωτάτη λειτουργία” most onerous, POxy.904.9 (v A. D.).
2. coarse, vulgar, common, “ἄνδρες” Ar.Nu.524; opp. πεπαιδευμένος, Arist.Pol. 1342a20; οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ -ώτατοι, opp. οἱ χαρίεντες, Id.EN1095b16; βωμολόχοι καὶ φ. ib.1128a5; “φ. καὶ νεόπλουτος” Plu.2.708c.
b. of things, φ. κωμῳδία a vulgar, low comedy, Ar.V.66, cf. Pl.Phdr.236c; “φ. τὸ χωρίον” Ar.Lys.1218; “φ. γέλως” Com.Adesp.644; “δίαιτα -ωτέρα καὶ ἀφιλόσοφος” Pl.Phdr.256b; “ἡδονὴ φ.” Id.R.581d; φ. καὶ δημηγορικά base, low arguments, ad captandum vulgus, Id.Grg.482e; “φ. μὲν καὶ δικανικά, ἀληθῆ δέ” Id.Ap.32a; “τῷ φ. προσχρῆσθαι” Id.Cra. 435c; “-ώτερόν τι ἐρήσομαι” Id.Euthd.286e; “φ. ἔπαινος” Arist.EN1178b16; ἡ <πρὸς> ἅπαντα μιμουμένη [τέχνη] φορτική art that imitates with a view to any and every man is vulgar, Id.Po.1462a4; λέγω οὐ τοῦ φ. ἕνεκα I do not say it out of vulgar arrogance, Aeschin.1.41; of an inflated rhetorical style, “φ. κατασκευή” D.H.Lys.3; τὸ φ. τῆς λέξεως vulgarity of style, Id.Th.27; τὸ φ. καὶ στρατιωτικόν, of the speeches of Iphicrates, Id.Lys.12; “τὸ φ. τῶν μέτρων” Luc.JTr. 14.
3. Adv. -ικῶς coarsely, vulgarly, “σκοπεῖν” Pl.Tht.183e, cf. R. 367a; φ. ἐπαινεῖν ib.528e; “φ. καὶ χύδην λέγειν” Isoc.12.24; “φ. πολιτεύεσθαι” Id.7.53; “φ. καὶ σοβαρῶς” Plu.2.634c; -ώτερον ἢ φιλοσοφώτερον διαλέγεσθαι to discourse more like a clown than one of liberal education, Id.Sol.3.
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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