φῐλόψῡχ-ος, ον,
loving one's life, with collateral sense of cowardly, faint-hearted, γυνή [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 348, compare 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 10.8; δειλὸν δ᾽ ὁ πλοῦτος καὶ φ. κακόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 597 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -χως[[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.137; φ. ἔχειν 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor 35.139 p.429 F.-R. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II loving men's lives or souls, δέσποτα φιλόψυχε [[ LXX.Wis.11.26. ] LXX]