φῐλοτῑμ-ία, Ion.
-ιη, ἡ,
A. love of honourordistinction, ambition,freq. in bad sense in early writers, Pi. Fr. 210 , E. IA 527 , Ar. Th. 383 , Arist. EN 1125b22 ; κακίστη δαιμόνων Φ.
E. Ph. 532
; ἄκαιρος
Isoc. Ep. 2.9
; πλεονεξία καὶ φ.
Th. 3.82
; withφιλονικία,
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 καλῶνib. 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 ; butφ. πρός τινα ambitious rivalrywith him, ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους φ. καὶ στάσις