φροντ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
(φρονέω) thought, care, attention bestowed upon a person or thing, with genitive, φροντίδ᾽ ἔχειν καμάτου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 85.10, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1301 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παλαισμάτων λάβε φροντίδα take thought for them, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.22; ἦσαν ἐν φροντίδι ἀλλήλων πέρι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111, compare 7.205; περὶ ὧν ἐν φ. μεγάλῃ καθίσταται 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.27S.; ἐκείνοις οὐδὲ εἷς περὶ τούτου λόγος οὐδὲ φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 101e; φ. ἐποιήσατο τῆς Ἑλλάδος 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.28, compare 36, 1st c.BC(?): Ocellus Lucanus Philosophus 4.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περί τινος ἐποιοῦντο πολλὴν φ. variant in [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.28 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: followed by a relative clause, ἐν φ. εἶναι ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.33, compare “Cyr.” 5.2.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely, thought, reflection, meditation, τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα φροντὶς.. θήσει δικαίως [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 912; πολλὰς.. ὁδοὺς ἐλθόντα φροντίδος πλάνοις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 67 (parodied by 4th c.AD: Heniochus Comicus 4.5, ἔχον.. πολλὰς φροντίδων διεξόδους)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν φροντίδι γίγνεσθαι, of a person, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but μοι ἐν φροντίδι ἐγένετο [τὸ πρῆγμα] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμβῆσαί τινα ἐς φροντίδα to set one a-thinking, [[ [prev. author] 1.46; φροντίδα.. θώμεθα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 142 (_anapaest meter_); δεῖ βαθείας φ. σωτηρίου [prev. author] “Supp.” 407, compare 417; ποῖ τις φροντίδος ἔλθ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 170 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, thoughts, νόον ὑπὸ γλυκυτάταις ἔθηκε φροντίσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ φροντίδων ζῆν to live thoughtfully, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 684.4: proverbial, αἱ δεύτεραί πως φ. σοφώτεραι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 436. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]