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φι^λοτι_μ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.love of honour or distinction, ambition, freq. in bad sense in early writers, Pi.Fr.210, E.IA527, Ar.Th.383, Arist.EN1125b22; “κακίστη δαιμόνων Φ.” E.Ph. 532; “ἄκαιρος” Isoc.Ep.2.9; “πλεονεξία καὶ φ.” Th.3.82; with φιλονικία, Pl.Lg.860e; also in good sense, Isoc.5.110, X.Mem.3.3.13, Hier.7.3, Pl.R.553c: the object is added in gen., φ. τῶν καλῶν ib.555a, cf. X.Cyr.8.1.35; also “φ. ἐπὶ τοῖς καλοῖς” Pl.Smp.178d; ὑπὲρ τῶν ὅλων, περί τι, Plb.1.52.4, 5.71.6; “πρὸς τὰ καλά” Id.6.55.4, cf. Pl.Lg.834b; but φ. πρός τινα ambitious rivalry with him, “ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους φ. καὶ στάσις” Plb.4.87.7 (but αἱ πρὸς σφᾶς αὐτοὺς φ. is f.l. for φιλονικίαι (ap.Stob.) in Isoc.3.18); φ. ἐμβάλλειν τινί, ὅπως . . X. Cyr.8.1.39: freq. with Preps., “διὰ φιλοτιμίαν” Pl.R.586c, Isoc.5.86, etc.; “φιλοτιμίας ἕνεκα” Lys.19.56; “ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίας” Pl.Phdr.257c, etc.; simply “φιλοτιμίᾳ” D.2.18; “φ. τινὶ καὶ φιλονεικίᾳ” Plu.2.856a: pl., jealousies, rivalries, “κατ᾽ ἰδίας φ.” Th.8.89; “φιλονικίαι καὶ φ.” Pl.R.548c, etc.; “αἱ φ. τῶν συγγραφέων” party-feelings, Plb.3.21.10.
2. conceited obstinacy, “ἡ φ. κτῆμα σκαιόν” Hdt.3.53; “ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίας, ἣν ὀνομάζουσιν οἱ νῦν Ἕλληνες κενοδοξίαν” Gal.6.415.
3. ambitious display, ostentation, “πλούτου” Lys.33.2: but freq.
4. lavish outlay for public purposes, munificence, “ἡ πρὸς ὑμᾶς φ.” Aeschin.3.19, cf. POxy. 1153.16 (i A. D.), Dacia 1.273 (Tomi), BCH51.99 (Panamara), etc.: pl., occasions for munificence, Plu.Nic.3.
II. the object coveted, honour, distinction, credit, “ἔστιν τὸ γράμμα ἐκείνῳ μὲν φ. πρὸς ὑμᾶς” D.20.69; “φ. παρέχειν τινί” X.Hier.1.27; ἐκείνῳ ἔχει φ. is to his credit, D.2.3; “ψευδῆ φ. κτᾶται” Aeschin.3.45; “ἑνὶ τὴν φ. συνεχώρησεν” Plu. Phoc.20; both in sg. and pl., ἀποστερεῖσθαι τῆς φιλοτιμίας or τῶν -ιῶν, D.24.210, 19.223, cf. 24.91 (pl.); στέφανος φιλοτιμίας διὰ βίου, as an honour, Rev.Arch.22(1925).62 (Callatis); φιλοτιμίας χρυσίον charitable fund, ib.34(1931).347（Stobi).
III. punningly, the conduct of one Philotimus, Cic.Att.6.9.2, 7.1.1.
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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