A). common mess at Sparta, later name for the earlier ὰνδρεῖον (v. ἀνδρεῖος 111 ), Arist. Pol. 1271a27 , 1272a2 , b34 , Rh. 1411a25 , Antiph. 44.3 , Dicaearch.Hist. 23 , Phylarch. 44 J., D.H. 2.23 , Cic. Tusc. 5.34.98 , Ἑλληνικά 1.18 , 19 (Gytheum, i A. D.), Plu. Lyc. 12 (hence Porph. Abst. 4.4 ), Agis 8 , Cleom. 13 , Phoc. 20 , Paus. 7.1.8 , IG 5(1).128.13 , al. (ii A. D.), Philostr. VA 4.27 , Them. Or. 19.227b , Hsch. s. vv. διαφοιγοιμόρ, φιδίτια, Phot. s.v. συσσιτίαι , Suid. s.v. Λυκοῦργος, φιλίτια , Eust. 1413.23 .

II). dining-hall in which the meals took place, X. HG 5.4.28 , Lac. 3.5 , 5.6 , Phld. Mus. pp.18,86 K., D.Chr. 2.44 , Plu. Lyc. 26 , Ages. 20 , Id. 2.697e , Ath. 4.139c . [Quantity given by εἰς τὰ φιδίτια (φειδ- codd. Ath.) at end of iambic line in Antiph. l. c., where φῐδῐ- is possible but involves an unlikely φῐδῐτης.] (Written φιδείτια in Ἑλληνικά l. c., φειδείτιον (or -α) in IG 5(1) Il.cc. (exc. φειδίτιον in 1507 ); but dat. φιλιτείοις and φιλειτείοις in Phld. Il. cc. (Pap.); this contradiction in the early evidence is unexplained; the form φιδ- or φειδ- is corroborated by Plu. Lyc. 12 , where it is suggested that the word comes from φιλία with substitution of δ for λ, or from φειδώ, or from Ἐδίτια ('eatings', cf. ἐδωδή) with prefixed φ. Codd. have φιδίτια (or ον) in Arist. Pol. ( v.l. φιλίτια ), Plu. (exc. φιτιδίοις v. l. in Cleom. l. c., φιλιτίων all codd. in Phoc. l.c., φιλίτια all codd. in 2.714b , φιλέστιον in 2.697e ), Hsch.; φειδίτια in Paus., Ath. (who cites Antiph., Dicaearch.Hist., Phylarch.), Eust.; φιλίτια in X. ( v.l. φιδίτια in HG l. c.), Arist. Rh. (φιδίτια Sch.), D.H., D.Chr., Philostr., Them., Suid.; philitiis in Cic.)