πρᾶος, ον,
also πρᾱΰς, Ionic dialect πρηΰς, εῖα, ΰ:—πρᾶος supplies singular in Attic dialect, Trag., and Comedy texts, except that the feminine is always πραεια (πρᾶος as feminine only in [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.168d)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; but singular πραΰς, Ionic dialect πρηΰς, is used in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry (also in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus and usually in LXX, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus, etc.)] LXX+5th c.BC+]:—plural, nominative πρηέες [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.10, πρηεῖς “Anthologia Graeca” 5.208 (3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus or 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus), πρᾶοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 562d, etc.; _feminine_ πρηεῖαι “Anthologia Graeca” 6.244 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus); _neuter_ πραέα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.4, “Eq.” 9.10, etc., πρᾶα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 488b22, _falsa lectio_ in 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.351; _genitive_ πραέων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.9; _dative_ πραέσι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 888a, 930a, _feminine_ πραίαις] Refs 5th c.BC+] written for πραείαις [[ “IG” 7.3101 (Lebad., 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; accusative πραεῖς [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.37.7, πράους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.55 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative πραότερος [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.21, πραΰτερος 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 153, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 85a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect πρηΰτ- [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.181 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative πραότατος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 116c, etc., πραΰτατος “Syria” 5.337 (from Sidon)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρηΰτατος [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.937, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.349 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus); πράϋστος “MAMA” 1.237 (from Phrygia)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]. (The ι subscr. is frequently written in codices, but Πρᾶος is written in [[ “IG” 22.1928.20 (_proper name_, 4th c.BC), “IGRom.” 4.504 (Pergam.), compare 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc., “Etymologicum Gudianum” 478.31] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πραύτερος is found once in codices, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ti.” [prev. cited] (proved wrong by πραΰς “Comica Adespota” in “Gött. Nachr.” 1922.31, πραέα (_neuter_ _plural_) in “PCair.Zen.” 33.12 (3rd c.BC), πραέως “UPZ” 144.6 (2nd c.BC), and by the absence of iota in _Ionic dialect_ πρηΰς))] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—mild, soft, gentle (not in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” or 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]