φείδων: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ωνος, ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">oil-can with a narrow neck, that lets only a little run out</b>, <span class="bibl">Poll.10.179</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">11.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> as pr.n. Φείδων, king of Argos, the author of Peloponnesian weights and measures, <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.127</span>:— hence Adj. φειδώνειος or φειδώνιος, α, ον, μέτρα <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>10.2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>480</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>30.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.8.3.33</span> (Poll. l. c. connects signf. <span class="bibl">1</span> with the Adj.); μέδιμνοι Φ. <span class="title">Delph.</span>3(5).3 ii 3 (iv B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> name of an old man in Com., <b class="b2">Thrifty</b>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.191.21</span>, etc.:—hence Com. patron. φειδωνίδης [ῐ], ου, ὁ, <b class="b2">Thrifty-son</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>65</span>.</span>