φῐλόλογ-ος, ον,
fond of words, talkative, οἶνος φιλολόγους ποιεῖ [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 284 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; φ. καὶ πολύλογος, opposed to βραχύλογος, of Athens, opposed to Sparta, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 641e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fond of speaking, of Socrates, [[ [prev. author] “Phdr.” 236e. ] Refs]
__II fond of dialectic, fond of philosophical argument, opposed to μισόλογος, [[ [prev. author] “La.” 188c; φ. γ᾽ εἶ καὶ χρηστός [prev. author] “Tht.” 161a; ὁ φιλόσοφός τε καὶ ὁ φ. [prev. author] “R.” 582e, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 74, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.48 O. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 fond of learning and literature, literary, Λακεδαιμόνιοι.. ἥκιστα φ. ὄντες [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1398b14; φύσει Ἀθηναῖοι φ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.3.7: opposed to λογόφιλος(lover of reason), 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.67; φιλολόγῳ ὑποκατακλίνεσθαι φιλομαθῆ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.618e, compare 419d] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀπαίδευτος, [[ 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.22.107: opposed to πολιτικός, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 42. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.3 student, scholar, first used by Eratosthenes of himself, [[ 2nd c.AD: Suetonius Grammaticus et Historicus Latinus “Grammars” 10, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.5.15, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.4.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “Libr.Propr.Prooem.”: but φιλόλογος ὁ φιλῶν λόγους καὶ σπουδάζων περὶ παιδείαν· οἱ δὲ νῦν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμπείρου τιθέασιν, οὐκ ὀρθῶς 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 371. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]