φιδίτιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῑτ], τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[common mess]] at Sparta, later name for the earlier [[ὰνδρεῖον]] (v. ἀνδρεῖος ''III''), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1271a27</span>, <span class="bibl">1272a2</span>, <span class="bibl">b34</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1411a25</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.44.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Dicaearch.Hist.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Phylarch.44</span> J., <span class="bibl">D.H.2.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Cic. <span class="title">Tusc.</span>5.34.98</span>, Ἑλληνικά <span class="bibl">1.18</span>, <span class="bibl">19</span> (Gytheum, i A. D.), <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>12</span> (hence <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.4</span>), <span class="title">Agis</span> 8, <span class="title">Cleom.</span>13, <span class="title">Phoc.</span>20, <span class="bibl">Paus.7.1.8</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>5(1).128.13, al. (ii A. D.), <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>4.27</span>, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>19.227b</span>, Hsch. s. vv. [[διαφοιγοιμόρ]], [[φιδίτια]], Phot. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[συσσιτίαι]], Suid. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[Λυκοῦργος, φιλίτια]], <span class="bibl">Eust.1413.23</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[dining-hall]] in which the meals took place, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.4.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lac.</span>3.5</span>, <span class="bibl">5.6</span>, Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>pp.18,86 K., <span class="bibl">D.Chr.2.44</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>26</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ages.</span>20</span>, Id.2.697e, <span class="bibl">Ath.4.139c</span>. [Quantity given by [[εἰς τὰ φιδίτια]] ([[φειδ-]] codd.Ath.) at end of iambic line in Antiph. l. c., where [[φῐδῐ-]] is possible but involves an unlikely [[φῐδῐτης]].] (Written [[φιδείτια]] in [[ἑλληνικά]] l. c., [[φειδείτιον]] (or [[-α]]) in <span class="title">IG</span>5(1)Il.cc. (exc. [[φειδίτιον]] in 1507); but dat. [[φιλιτείοις]] and [[φιλειτείοις]] in Phld. Il. cc. (Pap.); this contradiction in the early evidence is unexplained; the form [[φιδ-]] or [[φειδ-]] is corroborated by <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>12</span>, where it is suggested that the word comes from [[φιλία]] with substitution of δ for λ, or from [[φειδώ]], or from [[*ἐδίτια]] ('eatings', cf. [[ἐδωδή]]) with prefixed [[φ]]. Codd. have [[φιδίτια]] (or ον) in Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[φιλίτια]]), Plu. (exc. [[φιτιδίοις]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in <span class="title">Cleom.</span> l. c., [[φιλιτίων]] all codd. in <span class="title">Phoc.</span> l.c., [[φιλίτια]] all codd. in 2.714b, [[φιλέστιον]] in 2.697e), Hsch.; [[φειδίτια]] in Paus., Ath. (who cites Antiph., Dicaearch.Hist., Phylarch.), Eust.; [[φιλίτια]] in X. ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[φιδίτια]] in <span class="title">HG</span> l. c.), Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span> ([[φιδίτια]] Sch.), D.H., D.Chr., Philostr., Them., Suid.; [[philitiis]] in Cic.) </span>