παιδικός: Difference between revisions

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