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φι^λοτήσιος , α, ον, also ος, ον Thgn.489: Dor. φι^λοτάσιος [α_], ον, S.El.1073 (lyr.):—
A.of friendship or love, promoting it, “φ. ἔργα” Od.11.246; “φ. δίαιτα” S. l.c.; “φ. χορός” Ar.Fr.675 (lyr.); “τέρψις” Phld.Hom. p.25 O.; “μέλος” Plu.2.329e; “εὐνή” Opp.C.3.375.
II. ἡ φιλοτησία, with or without κύλιξ, the cup sacred to friendship, the loving-cup, “ἡ μὲν γὰρ φέρεται φιλοτήσιος” Thgn. l. c.; “πῖνε, κατάκεισο, λαβὲ τήνδε φιλοτησίαν” Ar.Ach.985 (lyr.); “κύλιξ φ.” Id.Lys.203; “φ. σοι τήνδ᾽ ἐγὼ . . κύλικα προπίομαι” Alex.291; “φιλοτησίαν δὲ τήνδε σοι προπίομαι” Theopomp.Com.32.9; “φιλοτησίαν παρέχειν” Luc.Sat.18: pl., “φιλοτησίας προπίνειν” D. 19.128, Luc.Herm.11, Gall.12: hence in Alex. 58, τῆς φιλοτησίας ἐγὼ μεστὰς προπίνω, Meineke read τρεῖς for τῆς: jestingly, ἡ τοῦ φαρμάκου φ. Theopomp. Hist. 177.
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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