βρᾰδύς, εῖα, ύ:
comparative βραδύτερος [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8; _metathesis_ βαρδύτερος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.30; βραδίων 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative βραδύτατος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 357, also βράδιστος (_metathesis_ βάρδιστος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.310, 530, Doroth(?).cited in 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Astr.” 3.30) 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.6, βραδίστατος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 325 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—slow, κιχάνει τοι β. ὠκύν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.329, etc.: with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, ἀλλά τοι ἵπποι βάρδιστοι θείειν slowest at running, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.310; β. λέγειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 237, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ β. delay, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 766e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb βραδέως, χωρεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.70; θεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 336a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ύτερον[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 22, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 190a; βραδυτέρως 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 16.12; βράδῐον 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 528, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.117 (condemned by 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 7)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: superlative -ύτατα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 39b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of the mind, dull, sluggish, ἐπιλήσμων καί β. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 129 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀγχίνους, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βράδιστοι τὴν γνώμην Aret.[same place]: with infinitive, προνοῆσαι βραδεῖς [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ β. καὶ μέλλον slowness and deliberation, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb βραδέως, βουλεύεσθαι[[ [prev. work] 78; β. ὀλίγην ὀργὴν ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 233c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]