ἀλαζ-ών [ᾰλ], όνος, ὁ, ἡ,
(ἄλη) properly wanderer about country, vagrant, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus Comedy texts 31. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__II charlatan, quack, especially of Sophists, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 380, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 102, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 173c, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 braggart, boaster, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.12, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1127a21] Refs 5th c.BC+]; title of play by [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3 adjective, boastful, pretentious, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.12; ἀ. λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560c] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -έστερος[[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {εἴρων}: _superlative_, ἡδονὴ ἀλαζονίστατον] Refs] most shameless, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 65c] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb superlative -έστατα, δρω-ν[[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.29.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]