φιδίτιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῑτ], τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">common mess</b> at Sparta, later name for the earlier <b class="b3">ὰνδρεῖον</b> (v. ἀνδρεῖος <span class="bibl">111</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1271a27</span>, <span class="bibl">1272a2</span>, <span class="bibl">b34</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1411a25</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.44.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Dicaearch.Hist.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Phylarch.44</span> J., <span class="bibl">D.H.2.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Cic. <span class="title">Tusc.</span>5.34.98</span>, Ἑλληνικά <span class="bibl">1.18</span>, <span class="bibl">19</span> (Gytheum, i A. D.), <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>12</span> (hence <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.4</span>), <span class="title">Agis</span> 8, <span class="title">Cleom.</span>13, <span class="title">Phoc.</span>20, <span class="bibl">Paus.7.1.8</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>5(1).128.13, al. (ii A. D.), <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>4.27</span>, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>19.227b</span>, Hsch. s. vv. <b class="b3">διαφοιγοιμόρ, φιδίτια</b>, Phot. s.v. [[συσσιτίαι]], Suid. s.v. [[Λυκοῦργος, φιλίτια]], <span class="bibl">Eust.1413.23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">dining-hall</b> in which the meals took place, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.4.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lac.</span>3.5</span>, <span class="bibl">5.6</span>, Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>pp.18,86 K., <span class="bibl">D.Chr.2.44</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>26</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ages.</span>20</span>, Id.2.697e, <span class="bibl">Ath.4.139c</span>. [Quantity given by <b class="b3">εἰς τὰ φιδίτια</b> (<b class="b3">φειδ-</b> codd.Ath.) at end of iambic line in Antiph. l. c., where <b class="b3">φῐδῐ-</b> is possible but involves an unlikely <b class="b3">φῐδῐτης</b>.] (Written <b class="b3">φιδείτια</b> in <b class="b3">Ἑλληνικά</b> l. c., <b class="b3">φειδείτιον</b> (or <b class="b3">-α</b>) in <span class="title">IG</span>5(1)Il.cc. (exc. <b class="b3">φειδίτιον</b> in 1507); but dat. <b class="b3">φιλιτείοις</b> and <b class="b3">φιλειτείοις</b> in Phld. Il. cc. (Pap.); this contradiction in the early evidence is unexplained; the form <b class="b3">φιδ-</b> or <b class="b3">φειδ-</b> is corroborated by <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>12</span>, where it is suggested that the word comes from <b class="b3">φιλία</b> with substitution of δ for λ, or from <b class="b3">φειδώ</b>, or from <b class="b3">*ἐδίτια</b> ('eatings', cf. <b class="b3">ἐδωδή</b>) with prefixed <b class="b3">φ</b>. Codd. have <b class="b3">φιδίτια</b> (or ον) in Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span> (v.l. [[φιλίτια]]), Plu. (exc. <b class="b3">φιτιδίοις</b> v. l. in <span class="title">Cleom.</span> l. c., <b class="b3">φιλιτίων</b> all codd. in <span class="title">Phoc.</span> l.c., <b class="b3">φιλίτια</b> all codd. in 2.714b, <b class="b3">φιλέστιον</b> in 2.697e), Hsch.; <b class="b3">φειδίτια</b> in Paus., Ath. (who cites Antiph., Dicaearch.Hist., Phylarch.), Eust.; <b class="b3">φιλίτια</b> in X. (v.l. [[φιδίτια]] in <span class="title">HG</span> l. c.), Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span> (<b class="b3">φιδίτια</b> Sch.), D.H., D.Chr., Philostr., Them., Suid.; <b class="b2">philitiis</b> in Cic.) </span>