φιλοδέσποτος
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
ον,
A loving one's lord or master, ἀνδράποδα φ. slaves that hug their chains, cringing slaves, Hdt.4.142, cf. Com.Adesp.24.13 D.; φύσει φ. D.S.17.66; φιλόδουλοι καὶ φιλοδέσποτοι J.BJ4.3.10; δῆμος φ. Thgn.849; in good sense, φ. ἀπελεύθερος MAMA4.336 (Eumeneia); of dogs, Plu. 2.491c: τὸ φ. Luc.Fug.16; φ. θεραπεῖαι Ph.1.474: as Subst., title of plays by Timostratus, AB80 (where dat. -τῃ), Theognetus, Ath. 14.616a, and Sogenes, IG22.2323.157.
