- φιλότεκνος
- φιλότεκνος, ον (Eur., Hdt.+; ins: ZAly, Some Funerary Stelae fr. Kom Abou Bellou ’49, p. 37 ln. 2 of a mother loving, or beloved by, her children; p. 23, ln. 1f of Heracles ‘beloved by his children’; PMich 149, 18, 2 [II A.D.]; PCairMasp 20, 10; 4 Macc 15:4f; JosAs 12:8; Philo, Abr. 179) loving one’s children, esp. of women (Aristoph. et al.) w. φίλανδρος (Plut., Mor. 769c; ins fr. Pergamon [Dssm., LO4 268=LAE 315] γυναικὶ φιλάνδρῳ καὶ φιλοτέκνῳ; Sb 330, 4) Tit 2:4. Of a father (SEG XXVIII, 1493, 6f [I/II A.D.]) in a reproachful sense (Synes., Ep. 1 p. 157d φιλότεκνος of an indulgent parent; Lucian, Tyrannic. 4 φ. ἐς ὑπερβολήν) φ. ὤν because you are indulgent Hv 1, 3, 1 (Leutzsch, Hermas 388, 91).—DELG s.v. τίκτω. New Docs 2 p. 64 ins no. 5, 28, cp. p. 101; 3 p. 42f (list of ins). M-M.
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