φῐλανθρωπ-ία, ἡ,
humanity, benevolence, kind-heartedness, humane feeling, or, in a weaker sense, kindliness, courtesy,
__I of men, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.1, NT.Act.28.2, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; opposed to σεμνότης, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.133 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to φθόνος, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.165; opposed to ὠμότης, [prev. work]109; joined with εὔνοια, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.114, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with πραότης, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.116 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with χρηστότης, [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.5.76; φ. λόγων ] Refs 4th c.AD+]courtesy, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.298; τῆς παρὰ τουτωνὶ τιμῆς καὶ φ. [prev. work]209; φ. διὰ τῶν λόγων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.17.11; φ. προσάγειν τινί [prev. author] 1.81.8; φ. εἰς or πρὸς τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους, [prev. work] 79.8, 11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ φιλανθρωπίας Pl.[same place]; μετὰ φ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]; clemency, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.73; so φιλανθρωπίᾳ [prev. author] “Ages.” 1.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the intercourse of lovers, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.171 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: plural, acts of kindness, courtesies, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.70, 25.86, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 36.17.13, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.160 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.b ἡ σὴ φ. as a form of address, your Clemency, [[ PRyl. 296 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]