friendships with polytheists

φιλία, ας, ἡ (Theognis, Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX; TestSol 20:9; EpArist, Philo; Jos., Ant. 12, 414, C. Ap. 1, 109; 2, 207 al.; Just., D. 93, 4 φιλίαν ἢ ἀγάπην; 139, 4; Ath. 22, 1f) friendship, love foll. by the objective gen. (Thu. 1, 91, 1; Sir 27:18; Philo, Fuga 58 φ. θεοῦ) ἡ φιλία τοῦ κόσμου Js 4:4 (there is also an αἰσχρὰ φ.: Biogr. p. 112), Pl. φιλίαι ἐθνικαί friendships with polytheists Hm 10, 1, 4 (φιλία can also = bond of friendship: Diod S 10, 4, 6 εἰς τὴν φιλίαν προσλαβέσθαι; 19, 73, 2). J-CFraisse, Philia, La notion d’amitiê dans la philosophie antique ’74; LPizzolato, L’ idea di amicizia nel mondo antico classico e cristiano ’93; DKonstan, Friendship and the State, The Context of Cicero’s ‘De Amicitia’: Hyperboreus 1, ’94/95, 1–16, Greek Friendship: AJP 117, ’96, 71–94, Friendship in the Classical World ’97; JFitzgerald, Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship ’96.—DNP IV 669–74. DELG s.v. φίλος. M-M. TW. Sv.