Related to: ζῆλος, ου, ὁ,
later εος, τό, [[ NT.Phil.3.6 ] NT] codices optative; Doric dialect ζᾶλος [[ “IG” 12 (5).891, etc.] Refs]:— jealousy (= φθόνος), [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 195, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1526: coupled with φθόνος by 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 191, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 47e, 50c, “Lg.” 679c (_plural_); εἰς ζῆλον ἰέναι [prev. author] “R.” 550e ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: more usually in good sense, eager rivalry, emulation, [[ [prev. author] “Mx.” 242a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1388a30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive person, zeal for one, ξυναίμων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 943 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ ζῆλον Ἡρακλέους in emulation of him, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 25; ζ. πρός τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 57 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: absolutely, passion, [[ PGrenf. 1.1.13 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3 with genitive of things, ζῆλον.. γάμων ἔχουσα causing rivalry for my hand, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 352; ζ. ἀζήλων καὶ φόβον ἀφόβων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.66J. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζ. τῶν ἀρίστων emulous desire for.., opposed to φυγὴ τῶν χειρόνων, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 17; ἀνδραγαθίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 4; so ζ. πρός τι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.53S., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 2; ζ. περὶ τὰ στρατιωτικά 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.27 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: plural, ambitions, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.54S. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]