amīcitia ae, f [amicus] , friendship: Per nostram amicitiam, T.: inter aliquos: esse in amicitiā cum aliquo, N.: iungere: parere, N.: dedere se amicitiae alicuius, Cs.: intima alicuius, N.: iura amicitiae: deficere ab amicitiā alicuius, N. -- A league, alliance: qui amicitiam fecerant, Cs.: populi R., S.: vetustior amicitia ac societas, L.-- Friends, a circle of friends: adflicta: ex intimā eius amicitiā, Ta.: parcet amicitiis.
phi^li-a , Ion. -iê, hê, ( [phileô] ) A. affectionate regard, friendship (not in A. or S.), usu. betw. Equals… (Dictionaries at Perseus)
Commenting on Adrian Murdoch's Bread and circuses entry Roman loan agreements, or more precisely, on the offered German links about the planned gold mining at Romanian Alburnus Major, I mistook Géza Alföldi for the eminent but long deceased Andreas (András) Alföldi.
However, on googling Géza Alföldi, I found this interesting BMCR review:
Michael Peachin (ed.), Aspects of Friendship in the Graeco-Roman World (JRA Supplementary Series 43). Portsmouth: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001. Pp. 160. ISBN 1-887829-43-1.
This fine collection of essays on friendship in classical antiquity emerged from a conference celebrating the sixty-fifth birthday of Géza Alföldi, held on 10-11 June 2000 at the Seminar für Alte Geschichte in Heidelberg. Of course, I have a personal interest in the subject, as the editor, Michael Peachin, notes in the introduction to the volume: “D. Konstan has recently argued against the majority opinion and has tried to inject more (modern-style?) emotion into ancient amicitia. Various articles presented below, on the other hand, point us back to a heavily formalized, even legalized, bond between friends” (7). Peachin adds, however, that “it is difficult to imagine a world utterly devoid of what we would call truly friendly relationships,” and reasonably supposes that there were, among the Greeks and Romans, both bonds such as “we would readily recognize as proper friendships” and also ties that, although they are labelled amicitia or philia, would not seem “particularly friendly” to us (10). Read on
On the Journal of Roman Archaeology website I found this: 43. ASPECTS OF FRIENDSHIP IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD, edited by M. Peachin. Cloth, 8 and half x 11 inches, 160 pages, 7 illustrations. Date of publication: end of November 2001. List price $69.50. Web price to individuals $49.50
I looked for that text in vain at JSTOR.
