θεραπευτικός

A. inclined to serve, c. gen., τῶν φίλων X. Ages. 8.1; εὐσέβεια δύναμις θ. θεῶν Pl. Def. 412e; θεοῦ Ph. 1.202 (but τὸ θ. γένος, = θεραπευταί, Id. 2.473); inclined to court, τῶν δυνατῶν, τοῦ πλήθους, Plu. Lys. 2, Comp.Lyc. Num. 2; τὸ θ. τῆς ὁμιλίας Id. Lys. 4.

2. abs., courteous, obsequious, in good and bad sense, X. HG 3.1.28 (Comp.), Plu. Luc. 16; θ.παρρησία Id. 2.74a. Adv. ‐κῶς Id. Art. 4; θ. ἔχειν τινός Ph. 1.186, cf. Str. 6.4.2.

II. inclined to take care of, careful of, λόγου dub. l. in Men. 402.15.

2. esp. of medical treatment, ἕξις θ. a valetudinarian habit of body, Arist. Pol. 1335b7; ἡ ‐κή, = θεραπεία, Pl. Plt. 282a; also τὸ ‐κόν therapeutics, Dsc. Ther.Praef. (but also τὸ περὶ παθῶν θ., title of a work on moral remedies by Chrysippus, Phld. Ir. p.17 W.); περὶ θ. μεθόδου, title of work by Galen.