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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: philêtôr 2: prosphilês 3: oikeios 4: philios 5: oikeioô
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philos, ê, on, also os, on Pind. O. 2.93: [i^: but Hom. uses the voc. phile with i_ at the beginning of a verse, v. infr.]

I. pass., beloved, dear, Hom. Il. 1.20, etc.; paide philô au=Hom. Il. 7.279; freq. c. dat., dear to one, mala hoi ph. êen au=Hom. Il. 1.381; ph. athanatoisi theoisi au=Hom. Il. 20.347, etc.: voc., phile kasignête (at the beginning of the line) au=Hom. Il. 4.155, au=Hom. Il. 5.359; with neut. nouns, phile teknon Hom. Od. 2.363, au=Hom. Od. 3.184, etc.; but philon tekos Hom. Il. 3.162; also philos for phile (Att., acc. to A.D.Synt.213.28), philos ô Menelae Hom. Il. 4.189, cf. au=Hom. Il. 9.601, au=Hom. Il. 21.106, al., Pind. N. 3.76, Aesch. PB 545 (lyr.), Eur. Supp. 277 (lyr.), Aristoph. Cl. 1168(lyr.): gen. added to the voc., phil' andrôn Theoc. 15.74, au=Theoc. 24.40; ô phila gunaikôn Eur. Alc. 460 (lyr.): as Subst.:



II. less freq. (chiefly poet.) in act. sense, loving, friendly, Hom. Od. 1.313, cf. Hom. Il. 24.775: c. gen., philan xenôn arouran friendly to strangers, Pind. N. 5.8, cf. ti=Pind. P. 3.5: of things, kindly, pleasing, phila phresi mêdea eidôs Hom. Il. 17.325; phila phroneein tini feel kindly, Hom. Il. 4.219; ph. ergazesthai tini Hom. Od. 24.210; ph. eidenai tini au=Hom. Od. 3.277; ph. poieesthai tini deal with one in friendly fashion, do one a pleasure, Hdt. 2.152, au=Hdt. 5.37.

III. Adv. philôs, once in Hom., philôs ch' horoôite ye would fain see it, Hom. Il. 4.347, cf. Hes. Sh. 45, Aesch. Ag. 247(lyr.), [1591], etc.; ph. emoi in a manner dear or pleasing to me, IBID=au=Aesch. Ag. 1581.

IV. philos has several forms of comparison: