A.“-ηθήσομαι” D.S.11.18 codd.: aor. “ἐφιλοτιμήθην” X.Mem.2.9.3, Pl.La.182b, Isoc.4.44, Is.2.42; later, “ἐφιλοτιμησάμην” Plb.20.8.2, Ael.VH3.1 (written “ἐφιλοτειμήσετο” Ephes.3 No.13): pf. “πεφιλοτίμημαι” D.42.24, Porph. ap. Stob.2.1.32:—pf. in pass. sense, Aristid.1.446 J.: (φιλότιμος):—love or seek after honour, Pl.Alc.2.146a, Is. l. c., D.20.103, etc.: hence, to be ambitious, emulous, Ar.Ra.281; φ. ὅτι . . to be jealous because . ., X.An.1.4.7, Lys. 14.21; φ. πρὸς ἀλλήλους, πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους, vie emulously with, rival, Pl.Smp.178e, Phdr.234a, cf. Lys.29.14.
2. the object of ambition, etc., is mostly added with a Prep., φ. ἐπί τινι to place one's fame in a thing, glory or pride oneself upon it, Pl.R.553d, X.Mem.2.6.12, Lys.14.42; “ἐπὶ τοῖς πεπραγμένοις” Isoc.3.46, al.; “ἔν τινι” Pl.La.182b; “ὑπὲρ τῆς δόξης” Isoc.8.93; περὶ τῶν καλῶν contend in rivalry for, Plu.2.760c; περὶ τὴν θήραν, δεῖπνα, D.S.3.18, Plu.Phil.9; “ἀφ᾽ ἑτέρων ἀρετῶν” Id.2.819c: c. neut. pron. in acc., “πρὸς ἃ ἐγὼ φιλοτιμοῦμαι” X.HG1.6.5: c. acc. cogn., “φ. φιλοτιμίας ἀκάρπους” Plu.2.830e; “τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἔριν” J.BJ1.10.5; φ. πρὸς τὴν πόλιν show patriotic zeal for . ., Lycurg.140, cf. IG22.1176.26, etc.; “εἰς τὴν αὔξησιν” D.S.1.50, cf. 25, D.L.4.44, Aristid. l. c.
II. c. inf., strive eagerly to do a thing, endeavour earnestly, aspire, “οἳ πάνυ ἂν φιλοτιμηθεῖεν φίλῳ σοι χρῆσθαι” X.Mem.2.9.3, cf. Oec.21.6, PPetr.3p.115 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen.578.2(iii B. C.), etc.; “φιλοτιμούμενοι ἐπιδείκνυσθαιπρὸς ἅπαντας” Pl.Phdr.232a: c. part., “φ. ἐλέγχων” Id.R.336c, cf. X.Eq.Mag. 9.6: c. acc. et inf., to be anxious that . . , ib.1.25: c. acc., “ἀεὶ ἕν γέ τι φιλοτιμούμενος” Id.Oec.4.24: with “ὅπως, καλῶς ἂν ποιήσαις φιλοτιμηθεὶς ὅπως ἂν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοδώρου λάβῃς τὰ ἐπιστόλια” PCair.Zen.41.19 (iii B. C.), cf. PMich.Zen.6.3 (iii B. C.).
