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.
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.
