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παιδικός

παιδικός, of, for children

παιδ-ικός, ή, όν,
  • of a child, θρίξ IG 12(5).173 iii 4 (Paros); χιτών PTeb. 127 (ii B. C.); ἡλικία Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1055.10; for or like a child, whether boy or girl, but more commonly the former, boyish, ἔρως Pl. R. 608a, cf. S. Fr. 841; πέος Ar. Lys. 415; π. χορός the chorus of boys, Lys. 21.4; π. δῶρον a present for a child, Arist. EN 1123a15; π. ἁμαρτίαι, φιλίαι, ib. 1119a34, 1165b26; π. μαθήματα the elementary sciences, chiefly geometry, Plb. 9.26a. 4; π. μέτρησις Str. 2.4.2; παλαίστρα SIG 577.84 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); τὸ π. νικᾶν to win in the boys’ games, IG 5(1).275, al. (Sparta, also written παιδιχόν, ib. 260, al.); π. αὐλός, opp. παρθένιος, Arist. HA 581b11.
      • 2 playful, sportive, λόγοι X. Ages. 8.2; opp. σπουδαῖος, Pl. Cra. 406c. Adv. -κῶς, opp. σπουδαίως, ibid., Id. Ly. 211a, etc.
      • 3 puerile, φθόνος Id. Phlb. 49a; ἠλίθιον καὶ λίαν π. Arist. EN 1176b33.
    • II of or for a beloved youth, ὕμνοι π. love-songs, B. Fr. 3.12; π. λόγος a love-tale, X. Cyr. 1.4.27; παιδικά (sc. μέλη), such as the twenty-ninth Idyll of Theoc.
    • 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, S. Fr. 153, Pl. Prt. 315e, etc.; [Ζήνων] π. τοῦ Παρμενίδου his darling pupil, Id. Prm. 127b; π. ὢν καὶ πιστότατος Th. 1.132, cf. Pl. Phdr. 239a: seldom as a real pl., ἐρασταὶ καὶ π. Id. Smp. 178e, Onos. 24; rarely of a girl, Cratin. 258, Eup. 327: generally, Philostr. Her. 2.7.
        • b metaph., darling pursuit, φιλοσοφία τὰ ἐμὰ π. Pl. Grg. 482a, cf. Max.Tyr. 35.1, Lib. Or. 59.133.

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