κολᾰκ-εία, ἡ,
flattery, fawning, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 268, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 590b, “Grg.” 463c, 465b, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2, etc.; πολλὴν κολακείαν πεποίηται 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.162, compare 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.27.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ κολακείας, title of treatise by [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus ] Refs 1st c.BC+]