φιλονικέω
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
English (LSJ)
A to be fond of victory, engage in rivalry, be contentious, mostly in bad sense, φρονήματι φιλονικῶν ἠναντιοῦτο out of contentiousness, party spirit, Th.5.43 (-νεικ- codd.), cf. Lys.22.8 (-νεικ- codd.); φιλονικοῦντας, ἀλλ' οὐ ζητοῦντας τὸ προκείμενον Pl.Grg.457d, cf. R.499e, Lys.33.4 (-νεικ- codd.); οἵτινες . . νενικηκότες ἤδη . . οὕτω φιλονικοῦσιν (v.l. -νεικ-) , ὥστε . . X.HG6.3.16: of the state, φ. παρὰ τὸ ἐπιεικές Democr.252; φ. ἄνευ γνώμης Thrasym.1.—Constr., abs., v. supr.; φ. περὶ παιδικῶν πρὸς ἀλλήλους Lys.3.40 (-νεικ- codd.); πρὸς ἀρετήν Pl.Lg.731a; οὐ πρός γε αὐτὸ τοῦτο (ὃ add. codd. opt.) φιλονικοῦμεν, ὅπως . . Id.Phlb.14b; φ. περὶ πάντων, περὶ κάλλους, Isoc.2.25, 10.48; ἀριστείων πέρι Pl.Lg.935c, cf. D.5.25: simply c. acc., φ. τὸ ἐμὲ εἶναι τὸν ἀποκρινόμενον to be eager that I should be the answerer, Pl.Prt.360e; the acc. is mostly a neut. Adj., τὰ χείρω φ. to be so obstinate as to choose the worst, Th.5.111 (-νεικ- codd.); μηδὲν φιλονίκει D.20.144 (-νεικ- codd.); φ. ὅπως . . X.Mem.2.3.17: c. inf., φ. ἐπιδεῖξαι Plu.Pomp.31; ἐφιλονίκησαν (v.l. -νεικ-) αὐτούς is dub. in Arist.Pol.1306b1. 2 in good sense, ἁμιλλώμενοι καὶ φ. X. Cyr.1.4.15; περὶ καλλίστων φ. Isoc.4.85; φ. ὅπως . . Id.5.113.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1283] den Sieg lieben, nach dem Vorrange streben; Isocr. 4, 85 nach Bekker, vulg. -νεικέω; auch sonst als v. l. hiervon.
