φιλήτης
καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος → Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ,
A thief, voc. φιλῆτα Archil.46, h.Merc.446; φῶτες φιλῆται ib.67; φιλητέων ὄρχαμος ib.175 (prob.); φιλήτης ἀνήρ A.Ch. 987 (1001); ὅρκος γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἀνδρὶ φιλήτῃ βαρύς S.Fr.933, cf. Ichn. 332; ὃς δὲ γυναικὶ πέποιθε, πέποιθ' ὅ γε φιλήτῃσι Hes.Op.375; Ἑρμῆς φιλήτης Hellanic.19 (b) J.; Ἑρμῆς φιλητῶν ἄναξ E.Rh.217; τῶν φιλητέων . . ἄνακτα (sc. Ἑρμῆν) Epigr.Gr.1108 (Chios, date unknown); φιλήτης ὁ Ἔρως καλοῖτ' ἄν AP5.308 (Dioph.); οὐκέτι χεῖρες ἔπαγροι φιλητέων Call.Hec.1.4.11; latronum more, quos φιλήτας (hostilistas, stilistas, psti[l]listas, codd.) Aegyptii vocant, Seneca Ep.51.13. (The spelling φιλ-, which is proved correct by φιλατία (q. v.), is found in Epigr.Gr.l. c., the Papyri of S.Ichn.l. c., Hellanic. l. c., Call. l. c. (tab. lign.), and the best codd. of the remaining Gr. passages, cf. Trypho and Hdn.Gr. ap. Choerob. in An.Ox.2.271; φιλ- also in Hsch., Suid.; φηλ- has MS. authority in Hes. l. c. (φιλ- Sch.Vett. cited by Eust.194.31), E. l. c., etc.)
