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φίλιος [ι^], α, ον, also ος, ον E.Hel.629 (lyr.), Arist.Fr.675.13 (lyr.): (φίλος):
I. Act., friendly, ὕμνος, ἔπη, Pi.P.1.60, 4.29; λόγοι, γνῶμαι, Hdt.7.163, 9.4; φρήν, ὄμματα, A.Ag.1491 (anap.), Ch.810 (lyr.); “χείρ” S.OC201 (lyr.), E. l. c. (lyr.); c. dat., friendly to . . , “φ. βροτοῖς φέγγος” E.Tr.849 (lyr.): esp. opp. πολέμιος, friendly, [“ἡγεῖσθαι] τοὺς αὐτοὺς πολεμίους καὶ φ.” IG12.116.13; φ. πόλις, etc., Th.5.44, etc.; “Ῥίον φ. τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις” Id.2.86; “φ. τοῖς συμμάχοις” X.Cyr.6.1.19; “οὐδεμίαν πόλιν Ἄργεος φιλιωτέρην” Hdt.7.151; φ. τριήρης a friendly ship, i.e. one belonging to a friendly power, Th.4.120; (for 8.102, v. ἐπίπλοος）; πρεσβεῖαι φ. καὶ πολέμιαι to friends and foes, X.Lac.13.10; πολλῶν . . φιλίων καὶ πολεμίων ναυαγίων wrecks of many ships both of friends and enemies, Lys.2.38: ἡ φιλία (sc. γῆ, χώρα) friendly country, opp. ἡ πολεμία, X.Cyr.1.6.9, An.5.5.3, D.18.301; “τὰ φίλια, ἀναχωρίζειν τὰ φ.” property of friends, X.Eq.Mag.7.6; “τισὶ φ. ἦν πρός τινας” friendship, Hdt.3.49 (v.l. φίλα); for φίλια τέμνειν τινί, v. τέμνω 11.2: Comp. “φιλιώτερος” Id.7.151.
2. Ζεὺς φ., Ζεύς as god of friendship (his temple at Megalopolis, Paus.8.3.14), Diod.Com.2.5,20; “πρὸς Διὸς φιλίου” Pl.Phdr.234e; “μαρτύρομαι τὸν φίλιον . . Δία” Men.54: in familiar language without “Ζεύς, ναὶ τὸν φίλιον” Ar.Ach.730; “νὴτὸν φ.” Pherecr.96 (lyr.); “πρὸς φιλίου” Pl.Grg. 500b, 519e, Euthphr.6b; “μὰ τὸν φ. τὸν ἐμόν τε καὶ σόν” Id.Alc.1.109d; “τὸν σὸν λιποῦσα φ.” E.Andr.603:—of other divinities, “φ. δαίμονες” Luc. Tox.7; “οἱ φ. θεοί” Aristaenet.2.14; kindly, gracious, “Κύπρι φ.” AP5.10; “ὦ Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ καὶ νὺξ φιλία” A.Ag.355 (anap.).
II. Pass., beloved, dear, of persons and things, γυνή Id.Supp.533 (lyr.); “δμωΐδες” Ch.719 (anap.); “ὦ φ. γενέθλα” S.El.226 (lyr.); “φ. ἄλοχος” E.Alc.876 (lyr.), 917 (anap.); “βρέφη” Id.Tr.557 (lyr.).
III. Adv. “-ίως” Th.3.65, X.Cyr.6.3.13, Pl.Lg.768e.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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