Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἑπτάπουσ γοῦν ἡ σκιὰ ’ στιν ἡ ’ πὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ὡσ ἤδη καλεῖ μ’ ὁ χορὸσ ὁ φιλοτήσιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 10613)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ φέρεται φιλοτήσιοσ, ἡ δὲ πρόκειται, τὴν δὲ θεοῖσ σπένδεισ, τὴν δ’ ἐπὶ χειρὸσ ἔχεισ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389261)

Related

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

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