φείδων
ωνος, α, ον, ου, Adj., ὁ
A.
oil-can with a narrow neck, that lets only a little run out, Poll. 10.179, cf. 11.1.
II.
as pr.n. Φείδων, king of Argos, the author of Peloponnesian weights and measures, Hdt. 6.127:— hence Adj. φειδώνειος or φειδώνιος, α, ον , μέτρα Arist. Ath. 10.2, Fr. 480, Thphr. Char. 30.11, Str. 8.3.33 (Poll. l. c. connects signf. 1 with the Adj.); μέδιμνοι Φ. Delph. 3(5).3 ii 3 (iv B. C.).
2.
name of an old man in Com., Thrifty, Antiph. 191.21, etc.:—hence Com. patron. φειδωνίδης [ι], ου, ὁ, Thrifty-son, Ar. Nu. 65.