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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>φιλό·νικος, ος, ον<\/b> <font color='purple'>[ῐῑ]<\/font> qui aime à vaincre, ARSTT. <i>Rhet. 1, 6<\/i>.<p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. φ. νίκη.<\/p>"
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                    "description": "ον, <b>fond of victory, contentious<\/b>, in bad sense, οὔτε δύσηρις ἐὼν οὔτ’ ὦν φ. ἄγαν Pi. <i>O.<\/i> 6.19 (-νεικ- codd. vett.); φ. ἐστι πρὸς ὃ ἂν ὁρμήσῃ Pl. <i>Prt.<\/i> 336e; coupled with φιλότιμος, Id. <i>R.<\/i> 545a, 582e (<font color='brown'>v.l.<\/font> -νεικ-), cf. 550b; ἐπίπονον καὶ φ. καὶ φιλότιμον… καταστήσας τὸν βίον Lys. 2.16. in good sense, of spirited horses, X. <i>Eq.<\/i> 9.8 (Sup.); of persons, φ. πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐλλείπεσθαι Id. <i>Mem.<\/i> 2.6.5, cf. Plu. <i>Ages.<\/i> 2 (Sup.); τὸ φ., = φιλονικία, ἔσῳζον τὸ φ. ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς X. <i>Cyr.<\/i> 7.5.64. Adv. -κως <b>in eager rivalry<\/b>, παραθεῖν Id. <i>Cyn.<\/i> 6.16; φ. ἔχειν πρὸς ἀλλήλους Id. <i>Cyr.<\/i> 3.3.57, 8.4.4; φ. ἔχειν πρὸς τὸ εἰδέναι Pl. <i>Grg.<\/i> 505e; opp. ἀνθρωπίνως, D. Ep. 3.41. (In codd. the forms φιλόνικος, νικέω, -νικία and φιλόνεικος, νεικέω, -νεικία occur, without any distn. of meaning, e.g. in Isoc. we find περὶ τῶν καλλίστων ἐφιλονίκησαν 4.85, but τὰς θεὰς περὶ τοῦ κάλλους φιλονεικούσας 10.48; μὴ δύσερις ὢν…, μηδὲ πρὸς πάντας φιλόνικος 1.31; τῆς πρὸς ἡμᾶς φιλονικίας 4.19, but φιλονεικία in the same sense, 12.158; φιλόνικος is implied by Arist. <i>Rh.<\/i> 1389a12 (where -νεικ, though found in good codd., as also in 1363b1, 1368b21, 1370b33, <i>Phgn.<\/i> 809b35, must be <font color='red'>f.l.<\/font>), καὶ φιλότιμοι μέν εἰσι [οἱ νέοι], μᾶλλον δὲ φιλόνικοι ὑπεροχῆς γὰρ ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡ νεότης· ἡ δὲ νίκη ὑπεροχή τις, cf. Poll. 1.178, <i>AB<\/i> 315; the compd. of φιλο- and νεῖκος would be Φιλονεικής· the sense <b>contentious<\/b> arises naturally from <b>fond of victory<\/b>; in SIG 685 (v. φιλονικία sub fin.) we have φιλονικίαν <i>Il.<\/i> 12, 36, and φιλονικίᾳ in OGI 335.7 (Pergam., decree of Pitane, ii BC); -νικ- is also found in late documents, as POxy. 157.1 (vi AD).)"
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                    "description": "[νῑ], <i>den Sieg liebend<\/i>, übh. <i>nach dem Vorrange, Vorzuge strebend<\/i> ; Xen. <i>Mem<\/i>. 3.4.3 ; Isocr. 1.30 nach <font color='green'>Bekker<\/font>, vulg. -νεικος."
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