φιδίτιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῑτ], τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[common mess]] at Sparta, later name for the earlier [[ὰνδρεῖον]] (v. [[ἀνδρεῖος]] ''III''), Arist.''Pol.''1271a27, 1272a2, b34, ''Rh.''1411a25, Antiph.44.3, Dicaearch.Hist.23, Phylarch.44 J., D.H.2.23, Cic. ''Tusc.''5.34.98, Ἑλληνικά 1.18, 19 (Gytheum, i A. D.), Plu.''Lyc.''12 (hence Porph.''Abst.''4.4), ''Agis'' 8, ''Cleom.''13, ''Phoc.''20, Paus.7.1.8, ''IG''5(1).128.13, al. (ii A. D.), Philostr.''VA''4.27, Them.''Or.''19.227b, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] s. vv. [[διαφοιγοιμόρ]], [[φιδίτια]], Phot. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[συσσιτίαι]], Suid. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[Λυκοῦργος, φιλίτια]], Eust.1413.23.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[dining hall]] in which the meals took place, X.''HG''5.4.28, ''Lac.''3.5, 5.6, Phld.''Mus.''pp.18,86 K., D.Chr.2.44, Plu.''Lyc.''26, ''Ages.''20, Id.2.697e, Ath.4.139c. [Quantity given by [[εἰς τὰ φιδίτια]] (φειδ- codd.Ath.) at end of iambic line in Antiph. l. c., where φιδι- is possible but involves an unlikely [[φιδιτης]].] (Written [[φιδείτια]] in [[ἑλληνικά]] l. c., [[φειδείτιον]] (or -α) in ''IG''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 Plu.''Lyc.''12, 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.''Pol.'' ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[φιλίτια]]), Plu. (exc. [[φιτιδίοις]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in ''Cleom.'' l. c., [[φιλιτίων]] all codd. in ''Phoc.'' [[l.c.]], [[φιλίτια]] all codd. in 2.714b, [[φιλέστιον]] in 2.697e), [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; [[φειδίτια]] in Paus., Ath. (who cites Antiph., Dicaearch.Hist., Phylarch.), Eust.; [[φιλίτια]] in X. ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[φιδίτια]] in ''HG'' l. c.), Arist.''Rh.'' ([[φιδίτια]] Sch.), D.H., D.Chr., Philostr., Them., Suid.; [[philitiis]] in Cic.)