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Updated: May 11, 2025
The Lacedaemonians called them phiditia, that is, by changing l into d, the same as philitia, love feasts, because that, by eating and drinking together, they had opportunity of making friends. Or perhaps from phido, parsimony, because they were so many schools of sobriety; or perhaps the first letter is an addition, and the word at first was editia, from edode, eating.
Possibly the first letter was an addition, and the word may have originally been editia, from edodé, food. They formed themselves into messes of fifteen, more or less.
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