κολᾰκ-εύω,
to be a flatterer, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 538b, “Grg.” 521b, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 144.2, 4th c.BC: Diodorus Comicus 2.34, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.66 W. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative, flatter, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.17, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.155, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 6, etc.; τὴν πόλιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.120b: _metaphorically_, τὴν κατάποσιν κ. 1st c.AD: Musonius Philosophus “fragment” 18 Ap.97 H.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be flattered, be open to flattery, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 115, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.34, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, soften, render mild, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 1.11, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]