Sense

1. to love or seek after honour, to be ambitious, emulous, jealous, to be jealous, to pride oneself, pursuing, object of ambition
2. to strive eagerly and emulously to do, endeavour earnestly, aspire, to be anxious that . .

Examples

• ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ τὴν δημηγορίαν μου διαβάλλει, καὶ τοὺσ εἰρημένουσ λόγουσ ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω διεξέρχεται, οὔτ’ ἂν ἀποδραίην, οὔτ’ ἂν τῶν τότ’ εἰρημένων οὐδὲν ἀρνησαίμην, οὔτ’ αἰσχύνομαι ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ φιλοτιμοῦμαι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 69 1:3)
• ὑμεῖσ δὲ πρὸσ ἃ ἐγώ τε φιλοτιμοῦμαι καὶ ἡ πόλισ ἡμῶν αἰτιάζεται ἴστε γὰρ αὐτὰ ὥσπερ καὶ ἐγώ, συμβουλεύετε τὰ ἄριστα ὑμῖν δοκοῦντα εἶναι περὶ τοῦ ἐμὲ ἐνθάδε μένειν ἢ οἴκαδε ἀποπλεῖν ἐροῦντα τὰ καθεστῶτα ἐνθάδε. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 6 7:3)

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