παιδικός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ή, όν, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[of a child]], θρίξ <span class="title">IG</span>12(5).173 iii 4 (Paros); χιτών <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>127</span> (ii B. C.); ἡλικία Demetr. Lac.<span class="title">Herc.</span>1055.10; [[for]] or [[like a child]], whether [[boy]] or [[girl]], but more commonly the former, [[boyish]], ἔρως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>608a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>841</span>; πέος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>415</span>; <b class="b3">π. χορός</b> the chorus [[of boys]], <span class="bibl">Lys.21.4</span>; <b class="b3">π. δῶρον</b> a present [[for a child]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1123a15</span>; <b class="b3">π. ἁμαρτίαι, φιλίαι</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">1119a34</span>, <span class="bibl">1165b26</span>; <b class="b3">π. μαθήματα</b> the [[elementary]] sciences, chiefly geometry, <span class="bibl">Plb.9.26a</span>.<span class="bibl">4</span>; π. μέτρησις <span class="bibl">Str.2.4.2</span>; παλαίστρα <span class="title">SIG</span>577.84 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); <b class="b3">τὸ π. νικᾶν</b> to win <b class="b2">in the boys' games</b>, IG5(1).275, al. (Sparta, also written παιδιχόν, ib.260, al.); <b class="b3">π. αὐλός</b>, opp. [[παρθένιος]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>581b11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[playful]], [[sportive]], λόγοι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ages.</span>8.2</span>; opp.[[σπουδαῖος]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>406c</span>. Adv. <b class="b3">-κῶς</b>, opp. [[σπουδαίως]], ibid., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ly.</span>211a</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[puerile]], φθόνος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>49a</span>; ἠλίθιον καὶ λίαν π. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1176b33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> of or for a [[beloved youth]], <b class="b3">ὕμνοι π</b>. [[love-songs]], B.<span class="title">Fr.</span>3.12; <b class="b3">π. λόγος</b> a [[love]]-tale, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.4.27</span>; [[παιδικά]] (sc. [[μέλη]]), such as the twenty-ninth Idyll of Theoc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> as [[substantive]] παιδικόν, τό, <b class="b2">boys' gymnasium</b>, <span class="title">AJA</span>18.329(i B. C.): but mostly, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[darling]], [[favourite]], [[minion]], μηδὲ παλλακὴν μηδὲ π. ἔχειν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>104.20</span>(i B. C.):—elsewh. in pl. (of a single person) παιδικά, ῶν, τά, mostly of a [[boy]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>153</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>315e</span>, etc.; [<b class="b3">Ζήνων] π. τοῦ Παρμενίδου</b> his [[darling pupil]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Prm.</span>127b</span>; π. ὢν καὶ πιστότατος <span class="bibl">Th.1.132</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Phdr.</span>239a</span>: seldom as a real pl., ἐρασταὶ καὶ π. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Smp.</span>178e</span>, <span class="bibl">Onos. 24</span>; rarely of a [[girl]], <span class="bibl">Cratin.258</span>, <span class="bibl">Eup.327</span>: generally, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Her.</span> 2.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> metaph., [[darling pursuit]], φιλοσοφία τὰ ἐμὰ π. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>482a</span>, cf. Max. Tyr.<span class="bibl">35.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Or.</span>59.133</span>.</span>