φείδων

English (LSJ)

ωνος, ὁ,

   A oil-can with a narrow neck, that lets only a little run out, Poll.10.179, cf. 11.1.    II as pr.n. Φείδων, king of Argos, the author of Peloponnesian weights and measures, Hdt.6.127:— hence Adj. φειδώνειος or φειδώνιος, α, ον, μέτρα Arist.Ath.10.2, Fr.480, Thphr.Char.30.11, Str.8.3.33 (Poll. l. c. connects signf. 1 with the Adj.); μέδιμνοι Φ. Delph.3(5).3 ii 3 (iv B. C.).    2 name of an old man in Com., Thrifty, Antiph.191.21, etc.:—hence Com. patron. φειδωνίδης [ῐ], ου, ὁ, Thrifty-son, Ar.Nu.65.