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φιλοτήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοτήσιος φιλοτήσιᾱ φιλοτήσιον

Structure: φιλοτησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from filo/ths

Sense

  1. of friendship or love, promoting it
  2. sacred to friendship, the loving-, to drink healths

Examples

  • ἐν τούτῳ ὄντα με καὶ φιλοτησίασ προπίνοντα ἐν χρυσαῖσ φιάλαισ ἑκάστῳ τῶν παρόντων, ἤδη τοῦ πλακοῦντοσ ἐσκομιζομένου ἀναβοήσασ ἀκαίρωσ συνετάραξασ μὲν ἡμῖν τὸ συμπόσιον, ἀνέτρεψασ δὲ τὰσ τραπέζασ, τὸν δὲ πλοῦτον ἐκεῖνον ὑπηνέμιον φέρεσθαι παρεσκεύασασ. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 12:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὅσιον ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἑστίαν τοὺσ ταῦτα διατιθέντασ καλεῖν καὶ φιλοτησίασ προπίνειν καὶ ὄψων τῶν αὐτῶν ἅπτεσθαι. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 28:2)
  • ἰδέτωσαν οὖν πολλοὶ καὶ θαυμασάτωσαν ὑμῶν τὸν ἄργυρον καὶ τὰσ τραπέζασ καὶ προπινόντων φιλοτησίασ, μεταξὺ πίνοντεσ περισκοπείτωσαν τὸ ἔκπωμα καὶ τὸ βάροσ ἴστωσαν αὐτοὶ διαβαστάσαντεσ καὶ τῆσ ἱστορίασ τὸ ἀκριβὲσ καὶ τὸν χρυσὸν ὅσοσ, ὃσ ἐπανθεῖ τῇ τέχνῃ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 3:3)
  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ πεπώκει, οἶμαι, πλέον τοῦ ἱκανοῦ, τῶν παρόντων, ὡσ εἰκόσ, φιλοτησίασ προπινόντων, καὶ ἐδεδειπνήκει πλέον ἢ κατὰ γέροντα· (Lucian, 23:7)
  • τρεῖσ φιλοτησίασ ἐγὼ μεστὰσ προπίνω ἴσον ἴσῳ κεκραμένασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 36 3:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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