παιδικός
paidikos
of a child
Appears 86 times across Plato's dialogues.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
παιδικός, ή, όν, A. of a child, θρίξ IG 12(5).173 iii 4 (Paros); χιτών PTeb. 127 (ii B. C.); ἡλικία Lac.Herc. 1055.10; for or like a child, whether boy or girl, but more commonly the former, boyish, ἔρως R. 608a, cf. Fr. 841; πέος Lys. 415; π. χορός the chorus of boys, 21.4; π. δῶρον a present for a child, EN 1123a15; π. ἁμαρτίαι, φιλίαι, ib.1119a34, 1165b26; π. μαθήματα the elementary sciences, chiefly geometry, 9.26a.4; π. μέτρησις 2.4.2; παλαίστρα SIG 577.84 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); τὸ π. νικᾶν to win in the boys’ games, 5(1).275, al. (Sparta, also written παιδιχόν, ib.260, al.); π. αὐλός, opp. παρθένιος, HA 581b11. 2. playful, sportive, λόγοι Ages. 8.2; opp.σπουδαῖος, Cra. 406c. Adv. -κῶς, opp. σπουδαίως, ibid., Ly. 211a, etc. 3. puerile, φθόνος Phlb. 49a; ἠλίθιον καὶ λίαν π. EN 1176b33. II. of or for a beloved youth, ὕμνοι π. love-songs, Fr. 3.12; π. λόγος a love-tale, Cyr. 1.4.27; παιδικά (sc. μέλη), such as the twenty-ninth Idyll of III. as Subst. παιδικόν, τό, boys’ gymnasium, AJA 18.329(i B. C.): but mostly, 2. darling, favourite, minion, μηδὲ παλλακὴν μηδὲ π. ἔχειν PTeb. 104.20(i B. C.):—elsewh. in pl. (of a single person) παιδικά, ῶν, τά, mostly of a boy, Fr. 153, Prt. 315e, etc.; [Ζήνων] π. τοῦ Παρμενίδου his darling pupil, Prm. 127b; π. ὢν καὶ πιστότατος 1.132, cf. Phdr. 239a: seldom as a real pl., ἐρασταὶ καὶ π. Smp. 178e, 24; rarely of a girl, 258, 327: generally, Her. 2.7. b. metaph., darling pursuit, φιλοσοφία τὰ ἐμὰ π. Grg. 482a, cf. Tyr.35.1, Or. 59.133.
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