προσφιλ-ής, ές,
(φιλέω) dear, beloved, τῶν ἡλίκων.. προσφιλεστάτῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with dative, dear or friendly to.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.163, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 78, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 507e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: of things, pleasing, agreeable, ἔργον θεοῖσι π. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 580 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; στολή, χάρις, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 224 (_superlative_), 558 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάσαις ἡλικίαις.. ἡ χρῆσις αὐτῆς (i.e. τῆς μουσικῆς) ἐστὶ π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1340a5; π. ἑκάστῳ.. τὸ κατὰ φύσιν [prev. author] “HA” 590a10; τῇ αἰσθήσει 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Odoribus” 45 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of actions, lovely, ὅσα π. [[ NT.Phil.4.8. ] NT] adverb -λῶς agreeably, with dative, [[ “OGI” 331.9 (Pergam., 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II active, of persons, kindly affectioned, well-disposed, ὥς μ᾽ ἔθεσθε προσφιλῆ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 532, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.92, 7.86. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb -λῶς kindly, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 442, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 822b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἡμῖν ἔχειν to be kindly affectioned to us, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.44; π. χρῆσθαί [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.3.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -έστερον[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 248d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -έστατα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.1] Refs 5th c.BC+], -εστάτως [[5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator (assuming variant) cited in 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.63: poetry προσφιλέως “IG” 9(1).235 (from Larymna). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]