φιλαίτιος
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
ον,
A fond of bringing accusations, fault-finding, censorious, A.Supp.485, PAmh.2.65.22 (ii A. D.); distd. from φιλεπιτιμητής by Isoc.1.31; πονηρὸν ὁ συκοφάντης . . καὶ φιλαίτιον D.18.242; opp. εὐγνώμων, X.Mem.2.8.6; τῷ φ. τῆς ὐμελείας πέρι θεῶν fond of bringing charges of neglect in their case, Pl.Lg.903a; τὸ φ. censoriousness, Plu.Sol.25, cf. 2.813a. Adv. -ίως Str.2.1.41, Poll.3.139. II liable to censure, D.10.70.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1274] gern Vorwürfe machend, gern tadelnd, klagend, tadelsüchtig; λεώς Aesch. Suppl. 480; Plat. Legg. X, 903 a; Xen. im Ggstz von εὐγνώμων, Mem. 2, 8,6; Isocr. 1, 30 von φιλεπιτιμητής unterschieden. – Bei Dem. 10, 70 neben σφαλερός, der Anklage ausgesetzt.
